{"id":450592,"date":"2026-02-07T19:53:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T19:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/450592\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T19:53:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T19:53:17","slug":"game-preview-san-antonio-spurs-vs-dallas-mavericks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/450592\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Preview: San Antonio Spurs vs. Dallas Mavericks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Dallas Mavericks have spent two weeks in free fall, during which their coach, Jason Kidd, has lost his cool with the press. They can point to injuries sinking their season, yet they also run a starting lineup without a traditional point guard, and have lacked a spare penetrator to combine with top pick Cooper Flagg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It\u2019s game two of the miniseries, and the San Antonio Spurs have beat them twice this year. Despite some warts here and there, the Spurs are playing well and must continue to do so because the Oklahoma City Thunder\u2019s first seed is vulnerable. Keep in mind that the Mavericks are on par with the league\u2019s worst offensive rating on the road.<\/p>\n<p>San Antonio Spurs (35-16) vs. Dallas Mavericks (19-32)<\/p>\n<p>February 7, 2026 | 5:00 PM CT<\/p>\n<p>Watch: Amazon Prime, FanDuel Sports | Listen: WOAI (1200 AM)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Spurs injuries: De\u2019Aaron Fox \u2014 questionable (back); Luke Kornet \u2014 questionable (adductor, ankle); Jeremy Sochan \u2014 questionable (quad); Lindy Waters III \u2014 out (knee)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Mavericks injuries: Kyrie Irving \u2014 out (knee); Derrick Lively II \u2014 out (foot); Khris Middleton \u2014 doubtful (trade pending); Brandon Williams \u2014 probable (leg)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Mavericks have spent two weeks in free fall, during which their coach, Jason Kidd, has lost&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5117],"tags":[196,147,5278,5,4,54612,54613,197],"class_list":{"0":"post-450592","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-stars","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-stars","10":"tag-dallasstars","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-spurs-analysis","14":"tag-spurs-player-reviews","15":"tag-stars"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116031101511135623","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}