Texas NBA Monday: Mavericks Host the Pacers, Rockets Host the Nuggets, and the Spurs Play at Phoenix
All three Texas teams play on the same Monday night, staggered across three tipoffs: Dallas at 7, Houston at 7:30, and San Antonio — winners of eight straight — at Phoenix at 8.
Texas basketball fans get a full Monday: all three of the state's NBA teams are in action on the same night, at staggered tipoffs that make the whole slate watchable end to end, per the league fixtures listing read by the desk this run.
First up, the Dallas Mavericks host the Indiana Pacers at American Airlines Center at 7 p.m. Dallas arrives 6-4 and rolling, a night after its 130-93 rout of Brooklyn in the same building behind Cooper Flagg's 25 points and 12 assists.
At 7:30, the Houston Rockets host the Denver Nuggets at Toyota Center. Houston's last outing was a three-point loss at Phoenix on Saturday, 102-99, in a game Kevin Durant led the Rockets with 21 points and 10 rebounds before Devin Booker's nine straight late points closed it for the Suns.
And at 8, the San Antonio Spurs play at Phoenix — in the same building Houston just left — carrying the league's hottest Texas form line: a 125-103 rout at Portland on Saturday, their eighth consecutive victory, with Victor Wembanyama scoring 29 points and the Spurs leading by as many as 35. Three teams, three buildings, one Monday night.
