{"id":549128,"date":"2026-10-11T15:38:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T13:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=549128"},"modified":"2026-10-11T15:38:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T13:38:29","slug":"kyrie-irving-returns-as-mavericks-beat-rockets-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/kyrie-irving-returns-as-mavericks-beat-rockets-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyrie Irving Returns as Mavericks Beat Rockets in China"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Dallas Mavericks defeated the Houston Rockets 132-115 in the second preseason game in China, but all eyes were on Kyrie Irving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The point guard returned to action after nearly 600 days away from the court and immediately led his team in scoring with 17 points plus three assists in 21 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Risacher also impressed with 16 points on 7-of-13 shooting, while Flagg finished with 14 points, four rebounds and seven assists. Off the bench, De Larrea contributed nine points, seven rebounds, four assists and two steals, while Biberovic added eight points and two blocks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the Rockets, Smart led the way with 20 points, five rebounds and four assists. Sheppard added 17 points, shooting 4-of-10 from beyond the arc, while Thompson recorded 14 points, seven rebounds and six assists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Macao had a front-row seat to Kyrie Irving and Cooper Flagg sharing the floor for the first time \ud83c\udf7f<br><br>Kai: 17 PTS (team-high), 3 AST, 2 3PM<br>Coop: 14 PTS, 7 AST, 2 STL<br><br>Dallas grabs the W in Game 2 of the NBA China Games 2026! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mTTP4Bie2m\">pic.twitter.com\/mTTP4Bie2m<\/a><\/p>&mdash; NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NBA\/status\/2109269134068392417?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 11, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The point guard returned to action after nearly 600 days <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":549126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[92],"tags":[156,940],"rumors":[],"typology":[19],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-549128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-kyrie-irving","tag-nba","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/10\/kyrie-irving-mavs.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":549129,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549128\/revisions\/549129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549128"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=549128"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=549128"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=549128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}