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ORLANDO, Fla. - The Dallas Mavericks set out in the off-season to add depth in hopes of building a roster capable of competing with the upper tier of the Western Conference.They ended the preseason looking like a team that may be ready for that challenge.Chandler Parsons scored 24 points, and Dirk Nowitzki added 16 as the Mavericks ran away with a 117-92 win over the Magic on Friday.Everybody came in and did their job, Dallas coach Rick Carlisle said. Youre never going to be perfect, but weve got good depth and weve got guys that I think are going to be ready. Now its time to throw it up.Dallas (4-4) rested its starters Thursday and played refreshed, pushing its lead above 20 in the third quarter.Orlando (4-4) didnt help itself, posting a preseason-high 26 turnovers.Tobias Harris led the Magic with 14 points.The Magic played under slightly dampened spirits following news Friday that second-year guard Victor Oladipo would have surgery Saturday for a facial fracture he sustained after catching an inadvertent elbow in practice Thursday.Oladipo had already missed the entire preseason with a sprained right medial collateral ligament and remains out indefinitely. He joins Channing Frye, who also sat all eight preseason games and is out with a sprained left MCL.A night after resting the top seven players in his rotation at New Orleans, Dallas coach Rick Carlisle went with his projected opening night starting five of Parsons, Nowitzki, Tyson Chandler, Monta Ellis and Jameer Nelson on Friday.They all played 20-plus minutes, led by Ellis with 26.That is always the goal, Chandler said of Dallas championship prospects this season. You look at our team and look at the chemistry were having. We just have to continue to get better...and everything else will take care of itself.Vaughn said he has yet to settle on his starting five for the regular season opener, but acknowledged that preseason injuries have left things fluid in the interim.It means that Orlandos Friday starting lineup of Harris, Kyle OQuinn, Nik Vucevic, Maurice Harkless, and Luke Ridnour is certainly a possible combination to open the regular season next week.The Magic got another injury scare in the third quarter when Ridnour limped off after banging knees with Parsons.___TIP-INSThe Mavericks: G Raymond Felton missed his sixth straight preseason game with a sprained right ankle.The Magic: Along with Oladipo and Frye, the Magic also played without Ben Gordon (dental work) and Dewayne Dedmon (sore foot) on Friday.INJURY TALKVaughn said in the day since his injury Oladipo has remained in good spirits and that he is confident he will take his recent run of bad luck in stride. One of the things I told him was it could be worse, Vaughn said. Lifes about challenges, how you face them and how you overcome them. And right now hes got a couple of challenges. Hes working back from one challenge with the knee, so I joked with him that the knee will probably be completely healed by the time you come back from the facial fracture.HOMECOMINGOrlandos fans gave Nelson, who spent the first 10 years of his career in Orlando, a loud ovation when he was introduced pregame. Nelson was waived by the Magic after last season, freeing him up to become an unrestricted free agent and eventually sign in Dallas.STAT WATCHVucevic has been consistent throughout the preseason and ended it that way. The Magics big man appeared in seven games this preseason, reaching double figures in them all. He had his second double-double Friday with 10 points and 13 rebounds.UP NEXTDallas opens the regular-season at San Antonio on Tuesday.Orlando opens the regular-season at New Orleans on Tuesday.___Follow Kyle Hightower on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/khightower Scarpe Scontate Outlet . Andrew Luck couldnt believe his ears. Colts fans couldnt believe the scoreboard, and the Kansas City Chiefs couldnt believe their incredibly bad luck. Air Max 90 False . Cleveland has won the first two of this set and has won six straight games since losing back-to-back tilts to open the year. Seattle, on the other hand, has now lost six in a row following consecutive wins to kick off its campaign. https://www.scontatescarpeoutlet.it/scon...alia-c2766.html. After a 10-game skid, winning sure feels good. Atlantas third error in the last two innings allowed Jackie Bradley Jr. Air Max Scontate . 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Chandler Parsons added 22 points and Lin had 21 for the Rockets, who beat the Knicks for the eighth straight time even on a mostly silent night from Dwight Howard, largely outplayed by Andrea Bargnani. "Jeremy stepped up, James played big and thats what we need," Howard said. Howard had just seven points with his 15 rebounds, though he did make a pair of free throws with 1:15 left that gave Houston a five-point lead. Harden, who missed the Rockets 123-117 overtime loss in Philadelphia on Wednesday with a bruised left foot, scored seven straight Houston points for nine-point lead with 3:51 left. He finished 16 of 18 at the line. But there was plenty of excitement left, including Anthony just missing a potential four-point play when the Rockets fouled him intentionally behind the arc leading by three with 5 seconds left. Anthony threw the ball up and it went in, but officials ruled it came after Harden fouled him. The Rockets hadnt fouled in similar situations lately, and both Toronto and Philadelphia made late 3s to force them into overtime. "It seems like that has happened a lot to us lately. Last-second shots. The first two times you know we didnt foul and they made big 3s. Tonight a foul and they still made a big 3," Harden said. Not quite. Knicks coach Mike Woodson wanted referees to review the call, though it isnt reviewable, and Anthony wouldnt say if he believed it should have counted. "My thoughts dont mean anything at this point in time," said Anthony, who did express his frustration with some of the calls Harden received. "It really doesnt matter right now for me to say whether I thought it was a good call or not. So therefore we move on from that." Anthony made both free throws -- he was trying to miss the second intentionally -- but Harden answered with a pair to make it 109-106 with 2.dddddddddddd9 seconds to play, and J.R. Smith was well off with a long-distance heave at the buzzer. Bargnani scored 24 points for the Knicks and played surprisingly strong defence on Howard, who shot 1 of 5. Smith scored 15 points in his second start but shot just 4 of 16 for the Knicks, who also cost themselves when Anthonys intentional foul on Howard away from the ball came with under 2 minutes left, allowing the Rockets to retain possession. Lin, back to coming off the bench after starting Wednesday in Hardens place, has won both games back at MSG, where he burst onto the worldwide scene two years ago during his memorable run of Linsanity. Lin came in on another nice roll, scoring 65 points in his previous two games, the best two-game stretch of his career. But the Rockets wasted his 34-point, 12-assist game Wednesday that featured a Rockets record-tying nine 3-pointers. "We played more as a team today," Lin said. "We really moved the ball, shared the ball. We played really unselfish today and we also did what we needed to do defensively." Houston led 28-23 after one and was starting to run away with it when it opened a 49-35 lead during Parsons run of 11 straight Rockets points. But he didnt score the rest of the half after his driving dunk with 3:10 left, and Anthony and Bargnani combined for three 3-pointers during a 13-2 run to close the half and cut it to 53-52. "Weve let four games in a row at home get away, thats something we hadnt done since Ive been here," Woodson said. "Thats kind of frustrating from a coachs standpoint, but were still learning each other and trying to figure it out, and we will eventually." NOTES: Center Omer Asik didnt play for the Rockets after the Houston Chronicle reported he had requested a trade. He had been starting along with Howard until coach Kevin McHale scrapped the alignment. McHale said Asik told him he didnt feel well and that he hadnt heard about any rumours. ... Rockets backup forward Greg Smith left with what appeared to be a right leg injury following an awkward landing after playing just 40 seconds in the first quarter. ' ' '