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Dallas Mavericks<\/a> (19-33, 12th in the Western Conference) vs. Phoenix Suns<\/a> (31-22, seventh in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n

Phoenix; Tuesday, 9 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Dallas aims to stop its seven-game skid with a win against Phoenix.<\/p>\n

The Suns are 21-15 against Western Conference opponents. Phoenix has a 14-17 record against teams over .500.<\/p>\n

The Mavericks are 11-23 against conference opponents. Dallas gives up 117.2 points to opponents and has been outscored by 3.0 points per game.<\/p>\n

The Suns are shooting 46.0% from the field this season, 0.5 percentage points lower than the 46.5% the Mavericks allow to opponents. The Mavericks are shooting 47.0% from the field, 0.2% higher than the 46.8% the Suns’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n

The teams meet for the second time this season. The Suns won 123-114 in the last matchup on Nov. 13.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Collin Gillespie<\/a> is averaging 13.6 points and 4.7 assists for the Suns. Dillon Brooks<\/a> is averaging 22.1 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

P.J. Washington<\/a> is scoring 14.1 points per game and averaging 7.1 rebounds for the Mavericks. Cooper Flagg<\/a> is averaging 22.0 points and 6.6 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Suns: 5-5, averaging 109.0 points, 41.9 rebounds, 22.9 assists, 9.9 steals and 3.2 blocks per game while shooting 44.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 109.4 points per game.<\/p>\n

Mavericks: 3-7, averaging 116.6 points, 46.9 rebounds, 25.4 assists, 7.2 steals and 5.0 blocks per game while shooting 46.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 118.3 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Suns: Isaiah Livers: day to day (shoulder), Cole Anthony<\/a>: day to day (not injury related), Grayson Allen: day to day (knee).<\/p>\n

Mavericks: Dereck Lively II: out for season (foot), Khris Middleton<\/a>: day to day (not injury related), Kyrie Irving<\/a>: out (knee).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas Mavericks (19-33, 12th in the Western Conference) vs. Phoenix Suns (31-22, seventh in the Western Conference) Phoenix;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3793],"tags":[7,406,4216,225,686,149,4057,1195,78812,2039,967,166,1407,6,9410,472],"class_list":{"0":"post-592044","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-mavericks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-cole-anthony","10":"tag-collin-gillespie","11":"tag-cooper-flagg","12":"tag-dallas","13":"tag-dallas-mavericks","14":"tag-dallasmavericks","15":"tag-dillon-brooks","16":"tag-event_preview","17":"tag-khris-middleton","18":"tag-kyrie-irving","19":"tag-mavericks","20":"tag-national-basketball-association","21":"tag-nba","22":"tag-p-j-washington","23":"tag-phoenix-suns"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116039520305037378","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}