LOS ANGELES – It’s not win or go home Wednesday night for the Mavericks and Los Angeles Clippers. But when it comes to taking charge in their first-round playoff series, it’s huge. When the match is tied, there is no bigger swing game than the next one. At 2-2, the Mavericks and Clippers know that […]
Los Angeles Clippers coach Tyronn Lue likes the way his team stuck together Sunday when they blew a 31-point lead Sunday and nearly lost Game 4 to the Mavericks. The Clippers led, 55-24, midway through the second quarter, only to see the Mavs put on a furious rally and storm ahead, 105-104, with 2:15 remaining. […]
Depending on your perspective, there are so many ways to look at Sunday’s Game 4 of the Mavericks’ first-round series against the Los Angeles Clippers. You might say that the Mavericks got waylaid by a Clippers’ haymaker and simply made a cosmetic comeback that eventually caused them to run out of gas when they finally […]
As Kyrie Irving said, nobody’s is feeling 100 percent physically at this time of the NBA season. Aches and pains are standard for every player that has survived the 82-game regular season to make the playoffs. Luka Dončić is proof. He acknowledged after the 116-111 loss to the Los Angeles Clippers in Game 4 on […]
The Dallas Mavericks are bemoaning the fact that the Los Angeles Clippers have been winning games in this best-of-seven first-round playoff series without having the services of All-Star forward Kawhi Leonard. It’s a dilemma that is mysterious to the Mavs. Leonard is clearly the Clippers’ best player, and he missed Games 1 and 4 while […]
An epic comeback bid by the Mavericks came up just short on Sunday afternoon in Game 4 against the Los Angeles Clippers. Trailing by 31 points midway through the second quarter, the Mavericks tried to pull off a Richter-scale rally behind some clutch shot-making by Kyrie Irving. But the Clippers had an answer in the […]
It’s a coach’s job to prop up his players when they need a hug. And to remind them that they haven’t done a darn thing if they get a little too comfortable with themselves. Jason Kidd is perfectly fine at doing both. Going into Game 4, the Mavericks needed to hear the blunt truth. “We […]
As the Dallas Mavericks attempt to get a firm grip on this best-of-seven first-round playoff series against the Los Angeles Clippers, coach Jason Kidd wanted to make one thing perfectly clear about the team from Southern California. “This is a veteran ball club,” Kidd said, referring to the Clippers. “They’ve been in every situation, so […]
After Friday’s fourth-quarter altercation with the Los Angeles Clippers’ Terance Mann and others, P.J. Washington struck a pose. And not just any pose. His face was emotionless. His arms crossed. He stared at the Clippers’ bench as if to say: Come and take it. The Clippers didn’t. Or couldn’t. A few moments later, the 6-7 […]
Daniel Gafford was on a mission to prove that he’s way better than the performances he turned in against the Los Angeles Clippers during the first two games of this best-of-seven first-round playoff series. In the first two games in LA, Gafford had cumulative totals of just three points, one rebound, one blocked shot and […]