Toronto Raptors vs. Dallas Mavericks Prediction, NBA Odds
Toronto is rolling offensively entering Friday’s lone visit of the season to the Dallas Mavericks and early NBA MVP favourite Luka Doncic. The Mavs are favoured on the NBA odds.
Raptors vs. Mavericks NBA Betting Odds
Friday is the first of two meetings between the teams with Dallas visiting Toronto on Nov. 26. Last season, the Mavericks swept. OG Anunoby averaged 21.0 points and 6.0 rebounds, and Fred VanVleet 19.0 points and 8.5 assists. Pascal Siakam had 20 points and eight rebounds in his one game.
Dallas superstar Luka Doncic averaged 34.0 points, 11.5 rebounds and 9.5 assists. Doncic is averaging 26.6 points, 10.3 rebounds and 8.6 assists in seven career games against the Raptors. He has two triple-doubles. Fifteen of the last 18 meetings have been decided by single digits. The home team has taken eight of the last 10.
The Mavs do look a bit different this year as they lost their second-best player in guard Jalen Brunson in free agency to the Knicks but traded for Rockets big man Christian Wood.
Toronto Raptors
After scoring 139 points in a home rout of Atlanta on Monday, the Raptors scored 143 in an even bigger rout at shorthanded San Antonio on Wednesday – the worst home loss in Spurs history. The Raptors have scored 84 points in transition in their last two games. Better defensive rebounding is allowing the team to get out and run.
Pascal Siakam had 22 points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds for his fifth career triple-double in just 28 minutes, while Gary Trent had 24 points and was plus-35 in 26 minutes. No one played more than 28 and the bench was emptied. Otto Porter Jr. made his Toronto debut and finished with five points in 11 minutes. Fred VanVleet missed his second game in a row with back issues.
Dallas Mavericks
No question that Luka Doncic is the MVP favourite right now because he’s on an historic tear. In Wednesday’s 103-100 win over Utah, he had 33 points. Doncic is the first player in 60 years to score at least 30 points in each of his team’s first seven games. The last player to do so? Wilt Chamberlain, who accomplished the feat in the 1962-63 season – when he did it 23 straight games. Wilt also had an eight-game streak in 1959-60. Doncic has totalled 253 points, 62 rebounds and 63 assists through the first seven games, the first player ever with at least 250 points, 50 rebounds and 50 assists in the first seven games.
Christian Wood played through an illness Wednesday and had 21 points and 10 rebounds. The Mavericks’ 2022-23 roster features seven international players from seven different countries, including Toronto native Dwight Powell.
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