{"id":662151,"date":"2026-03-17T03:09:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T03:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/662151\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T03:09:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T03:09:15","slug":"mavericks-vs-pelicans-preview-and-injury-update-southwest-division-foes-face-off-once-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/662151\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks vs Pelicans Preview and Injury Update: Southwest Division foes face off once more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dallas Mavericks (23-45) head to Louisiana to face of against an old friend\/foe in the New Orleans Pelicans (22-46). Dallas took the Cavaliers to the woodshed on Sunday afternoon and have had a full day to recover and get ready for tonight\u2019s game. The Pelicans, meanwhile, just keep winning. They have no incentive to lose, seeing as they don\u2019t own this year\u2019s draft pick, but it\u2019s been fascinating watching them from afar (yes I know they lose to the Rockets in maddening fashion on Friday).<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Here are the main things you need to know:<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">WHO:\u00a0Dallas Mavericks vs New Orleans Pelicans<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">WHAT: Heading to Louisiana for a Southwest Division game<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">WHERE:\u00a0Smoothie King Center, New Orleans, Louisiana<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">HOW: KFAA Channel 29, MavsTV streaming, NBA League Pass<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Mavericks injury report is worth taking a gander at before tipoff. The two-way guys are all questionable, so the coaching staff is still deciding if they should play or not. Daniel Gafford is going to miss this game, as is Klay Thompson (each is doubtful as of this writing). Caleb Martin is questionable. Everyone else should be playing unless I cannot read (entirely possible).<\/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\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Sign up for a user account&quot;}\" 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=\"\">The New Orleans side of the report is clean, with Dejounte Murray listed as questionable with an illness. deThe line is a whopping 8.5 favoring the Pelicans. That reads weird to me but Dallas is on their fourth game in five nights and New Orleans has been off for a few days. Still, that\u2019s a massive line for one bad team to be favored over the other. We\u2019ll see shortly I suppose!<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/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 (23-45) head to Louisiana to face of against an old friend\/foe in the New Orleans&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3796],"tags":[7,6461,149,2619,2878,498,4034,6,66128,478,470,4073,4072,675,13066,9133,490,814],"class_list":["post-662151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-orleans-pelicans","tag-basketball","tag-caleb-martin","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-daniel-gafford","tag-dejounte-murray","tag-klay-thompson","tag-la","tag-nba","tag-nbae","tag-new-orleans","tag-new-orleans-pelicans","tag-neworleans","tag-neworleanspelicans","tag-pelicans","tag-smoothie-king-center","tag-southwest-division","tag-the-mavericks","tag-zion-williamson"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116242322550658526","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662151","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=662151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}