DALLAS, Texas (AFP) ¡ª wow gold scored 31 points to lead Houston over the depleted Dallas Mavericks on Thursday as the Rockets stretched their National Basketball Association winning streak to 17 games.

The Rockets beat the cheap wow gold 113-98 to become just the sixth team in league history to post 17 straight victories.

Rafer Alston added a season-high 24 points for the Rockets, wow the Mavericks had to make do without suspended star Dirk Nowitzki.

Nowitzki, the buy wow gold NBA Most Valuable Player, had been banned one game by the NBA for a hard foul he committed during Monday's 116-110 loss to the Utah Jazz, a foul that left Utah's Andrei Kirilenko with a sprained hip.

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