{"id":493183,"date":"2025-06-11T04:31:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T08:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=493183"},"modified":"2025-06-11T04:31:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T08:31:48","slug":"pistons-vs-mavericks-in-mexico-city-on-nov-1-as-nba-returns-south-of-the-border","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/pistons-vs-mavericks-in-mexico-city-on-nov-1-as-nba-returns-south-of-the-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Pistons vs Mavericks in Mexico City on Nov. 1 as NBA returns south of the border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NBA is heading back to Mexico City next season, and this time, it\u2019s the Detroit Pistons and Dallas Mavericks who will take the court.<\/p>\n<p>The league announced on June 10, that the Pistons will face the Mavericks in a regular-season game on November 1 in Mexico City \u2014 the first confirmed matchup on Detroit\u2019s 2025\u201326 schedule.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"es\">DETROIT x DALLAS x M\u00c9XICO CITY<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcc5 Nov. 1, 2025<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NBAenM%C3%A9xico?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#NBAenM\u00e9xico<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7C8b5xC1vj\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/7C8b5xC1vj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA\/status\/1932639521121972505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 11, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This will mark the Pistons\u2019 third appearance in Mexico&#8217;s capital. They previously faced the Mavericks there on December 12, 2019, and played a preseason game against the Washington Bullets (now Wizards) on October 29, 1995. The November clash will be the Mavericks\u2019 eighth appearance in Mexico City, reinforcing their role as frequent international ambassadors for the NBA.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, this will be the 34th NBA game played in Mexico, continuing the league\u2019s ongoing efforts to grow the game globally.<\/p>\n<p>The Pistons will enter the 2025\u201326 campaign with momentum after a remarkable turnaround season. In 2024\u201325, they improved by 30 wins \u2014 finishing 44\u201338 after enduring the worst season in franchise history just one year prior. That surge earned them a playoff berth for the first time since 2019.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NBAenM%C3%A9xico?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#NBAenM\u00e9xico<\/a> on Nov. 1 \ud83c\uddf2\ud83c\uddfd<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DetroitPistons?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@DetroitPistons<\/a> vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dallasmavs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@dallasmavs<\/a> \ud83c\udf7f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/m3azPuLUpV\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/m3azPuLUpV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA\/status\/1932635650844414136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 11, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Leading the charge was Cade Cunningham, who earned All-NBA Third Team honors with averages of 26.1 points, 9.1 assists, and 6.1 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NBA is heading back to Mexico City next season, and this time, it\u2019s the Detroit Pistons and Dallas Mavericks who will take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":493184,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16748,16727,17837],"news_category":[16706,16715],"gn_keywords":[17975,18432,1067],"acf":{"announce":"This will be the 34th NBA game, played in Mexico and first of Piston's 2025\/26 regular season","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/493183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/493183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493185,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/493183\/revisions\/493185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493183"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=493183"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=493183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}