{"id":864743,"date":"2026-10-22T07:15:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T07:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/864743\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T07:15:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T07:15:30","slug":"dallas-travels-to-indiana-for-non-conference-matchup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/864743\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas travels to Indiana for non-conference matchup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Associated Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/dallas-mavericks-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Mavericks<\/a> (0-1, ninth in the Western Conference) vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/indiana-pacers-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Indiana Pacers<\/a> (1-0, seventh in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Indianapolis; Friday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: Indiana and Dallas meet in non-conference action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Indiana went 19-63 overall last season while going 11-30 at home. The Pacers gave up 120.4 points per game while committing 20.9 fouls last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Dallas finished 26-56 overall, 14-37 in Western Conference action and 10-31 on the road last season. The Mavericks allowed opponents to score 119.6 points per game and shoot 47.8% from the field last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">INJURIES: Pacers: Aaron Nesmith: out (hamstring), Johnny Furphy: out for season (acl), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/tj-mcconnell-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">T.J. McConnell<\/a>: out (hamstring).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Mavericks: Tarik Biberovic: out (heel), Caleb Martin: out (thumb), Jett Howard: out (calf), Dereck Lively II: out (foot), Santi Aldama: out (knee).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press Dallas Mavericks (0-1, ninth in the Western Conference) vs. Indiana Pacers (1-0, seventh in the Eastern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3793],"tags":[7,686,149,4057,78812,126,166,1407,6,3886],"class_list":["post-864743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas-mavericks","tag-basketball","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-dallasmavericks","tag-event_preview","tag-indiana-pacers","tag-mavericks","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-nba","tag-t-j-mcconnell"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117483334765653946","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864743","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=864743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}