Best opening price: Rockets paid $1.36, Mavericks paid $3.73 (the best of 38 bookies). Prices change before kickoff.
Fair chance at the open (our read of the prices, with the bookies' cut taken out): Rockets about 7 in 10, Mavericks about 3 in 10.
How much the bookies keep: about $5.21 of every $100 bet on this game.
Since betting opened: the price has barely moved.
Prices from when betting opened on Thu 8 Oct