{"id":25271,"date":"2023-04-07T23:15:12","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T23:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/07\/mavericks-pull-transparent-tank-job-ahead-of-must-win-game\/"},"modified":"2023-04-07T23:15:12","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T23:15:12","slug":"mavericks-pull-transparent-tank-job-ahead-of-must-win-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/07\/mavericks-pull-transparent-tank-job-ahead-of-must-win-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks pull &#8216;transparent tank job&#8217; ahead of must-win game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p> The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/teams\/dallas_mavericks\/77\" class=\"yard_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dallas Mavericks<\/a> are playing a must-win game on Friday, at least on paper. You would not know it from how the team is going about it, though. <\/p>\n<p>On Friday morning, the Mavericks ruled out a number of key players, including guard Kyrie Irving, for Friday\u2019s game against the Chicago Bulls. Tellingly, Irving was ruled out due to \u201cright foot injury recovery,\u201d while Josh Green and Christian Wood were simply deemed out due to \u201crest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Mavericks\u2019 tanking efforts became even more apparent later Friday, when ESPN\u2019s Tim MacMahon reported that the team plans to sit Luka Doncic after the first quarter of the game.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n\t\t\t(function(d, s, id) {\n\t\t\t\tvar js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n\t\t\t\tif (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n\t\t\t\tjs = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n\t\t\t\tjs.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.5&appId=125075807517358\";\n\t\t\t\tfjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n\t\t\t}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n\t\t<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/articles\/mavericks_pull_transparent_tank_job_ahead_of_must_win_game\/s1_127_38673076\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dallas Mavericks are playing a must-win game on Friday, at least on paper. You would not know it from how the team is going about it, though. On Friday morning, the Mavericks ruled out a number of key players, including guard Kyrie Irving, for Friday\u2019s game against the Chicago Bulls. Tellingly, Irving was ruled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25271","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}