{"id":627495,"date":"2026-02-27T04:06:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T04:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/627495\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T04:06:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T04:06:29","slug":"mavericks-vs-kings-preview-and-injury-update-terrible-time-for-a-win-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/627495\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks vs Kings Preview and Injury Update: Terrible time for a win streak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dallas Mavericks (21-36) are home for the first time in a month and on Thursday night they host the Sacramento Kings (13-47). Dallas is staring at their least welcomed winstreak in years, defeating the Pacers then the Brookly Nets. The Kings actually beat the Grizzlies this week, which was their first win since one over the Washington Wizards in mid-January. The Kings are bad bad bad bad, but we knew that already<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Here\u2019s the main things you need to know:<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">WHO:\u00a0Dallas Mavericks vs Sacramento Kings<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">WHAT: The new Dallas Mavericks finally get to play in front of the home crowd<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">WHERE:\u00a0American Airlines Center, Dallas, Texas<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">HOW: KFAA Channel 29, MavsTV streaming, NBA League Pass<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Oh boy what an injury report we have today. On the Dallas end, Cooper Flagg, Daniel Gafford, PJ Washington, and Ryan Nembhard are all out with various maladies. Khris Middleton is going to suit up after hurting his shoulder the other night. Moussa Cisse and Miles Kelly should both see some action tonight as they\u2019re both listed as available.<\/p>\n<p>Join the conversation!<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/auth\/login?itm_medium=sidebar&amp;itm_source=mavsmoneyball&amp;returnPath=%2Fauth%2Fsso%3FreturnTo%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.mavsmoneyball.com%252F\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sign up for a user account;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Sign up for a user account<\/a> and get:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Comment on articles, community posts<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Rec comments, community posts<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">New, improved notifications system!<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Unlike the Nets, the Kings have taken to just shutting down guys for the year. Domanta Sabonis and Zach LaVine are out. Russell Westbrook was ruled out for tonight\u2019s game. DeAndre Hunter and Dyland Cardwell are missing the game with various injuries. Keegan Murray has been out with a bad ankle sprain. It\u2019s bleak over there for an already bad team.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">I see no way Dallas loses. They have NBA players. The Kings have DeMar DeRozan. It\u2019s gonna be a sad evening of basketball for the hardcore fans out there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Be sure to chime in with your predictions in the comments!<\/p>\n<p>Consider joining Josh and me on Pod Maverick\u00a0live after the game on YouTube, we should start LATE. Thanks so much for spending time with us here at Mavs Moneyball. Let\u2019s go Mavs!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Mavericks (21-36) are home for the first time in a month and on Thursday night they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3793],"tags":[7,225,686,149,4057,2619,3213,3210,2039,166,8471,25746,6,114,8283,254,9856,477,3207,468,3212],"class_list":["post-627495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas-mavericks","tag-basketball","tag-cooper-flagg","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-dallasmavericks","tag-daniel-gafford","tag-demar-derozan","tag-keegan-murray","tag-khris-middleton","tag-mavericks","tag-miles-kelly","tag-moussa-cisse","tag-nba","tag-pacers","tag-pj-washington","tag-russell-westbrook","tag-ryan-nembhard","tag-sacramento-kings","tag-the-kings","tag-washington-wizards","tag-zach-lavine"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116140624083262899","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627495","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=627495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}