The Dallas Mavericks (24-52) are at home on Friday night after a two-day rest and will take on the Orlando Magic (40-36). Dallas got ran off the court on Tuesday in a road game against the Milwaukee Bucks. The Magic lost a nail-biter to the Atlanta Hawks on Wednesday night<\/p>\n
Here are the main things you need to know:<\/p>\n
The injury report for the Mavericks once againt has the team missing several rotation players. PJ Washington is out with an illness. Caleb Martin still has issues with his plantar fascia. Marvin Bagley will miss the game with a shoulder issue. Moussa Cisse won\u2019t be playing as Dallas is trying to use his limited availability down to the final game. Tyler Smith and John Poulakidas will suit up.<\/p>\n
The Magic will be without Dallas native (and MMB favorite) Anthony Black. Jonathan Isaac will also miss this game due to illness.<\/p>\n
The Mavericks are riding a 13 game home losing streak, which is pretty hard to do. They\u2019ve also beaten the Orlando Magic 14 straight times, so if Dallas wins they snap one bad streak and keep another good one alive. There\u2019s not a ton to watch for in this game. We\u2019ll find something to talk about either way.<\/p>\n
Be sure to chime in with your predictions in the comments!<\/p>\n
Consider joining Josh and me on Pod Maverick live 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 (24-52) are at home on Friday night after a two-day rest and will take on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3793],"tags":[7,686,149,63972,4057,166,39459,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-696881","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-mavericks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-mavericks","11":"tag-dallas-mavericks-discussion","12":"tag-dallasmavericks","13":"tag-mavericks","14":"tag-mavericks-game-coverage","15":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116343629661692558","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696881","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=696881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}