The Dallas Mavericks (19-35) start off the post-NBA All-Star push on the road Friday night, this time matching up against the Minnesota Timberwolves (34-22). Dallas hasn\u2019t won a game since January 22nd, so a win here would mean they can cut the streak at nine games and before it reaches a full month. Minnesota is looking to start a win streak after beating the pants off of the Atlanta Hawks and Portland Trailblazers before All-Star weekend.<\/p>\n
One would think that given a week off, the Dallas Mavericks injury report would be reasonable. That is not the case unfortunately. Cooper Flagg will miss this game due to a foot sprain. Max Christie was downgraded to doubtful a few hours ago. The two-way guys, Ryan Nembhard and Moussa Cisse won\u2019t be playing.<\/p>\n
With both Cooper Flagg and Luka Doncic out, this game probably becomes unwatchable for most Mavericks fans given the late start time. I do not blame them, but as I run a Mavs website, I try to watch all games. Caleb Martin and Daniel Gafford are each questionable. Naji Marshall is not on the report after hurting his foot against the Lakers a week ago.<\/p>\n
The Minnesota Timberwolves have a clean bill of health in comparison.<\/p>\n
Expect a huge game from Anthony Edwards. But if Dallas hopes to hang on and steal a win, they need to control the glass and get out in transition. Dallas has gotten stomped both games this season by the Timberwolves and unfortunately, this game might be more of the same.<\/p>\n
Be sure to chime in with your predictions in the comments!<\/p>\n
Consider joining Josh and me on Pod Maverick live after the game on YouTube, we should start LATE. Thanks so much for spending time with us here at Mavs Moneyball. Let\u2019s go Mavs!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Mavericks (19-35) start off the post-NBA All-Star push on the road Friday night, this time matching…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3782],"tags":[7,63972,39459,307,152,3954,6,308],"class_list":["post-614676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-minnesota-timberwolves","tag-basketball","tag-dallas-mavericks-discussion","tag-mavericks-game-coverage","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-timberwolves","tag-minnesotatimberwolves","tag-nba","tag-timberwolves"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116105608181463140","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}