The Dallas Mavericks (25-53) head back out on the road for their final trip of the season. The first game is Tuesday night, late, against the Los Angeles Clippers (40-38). The Mavericks are coming off a fun, but lottery impactful win against the Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday evening. The Clippers last beat the Kings on Sunday and need this one as they\u2019re trying to secure the eighth seed in the Western Conference Play-In tournament.<\/p>\n
Here are the main things you need to know:<\/p>\n
The injuyr report for the Dallas Mavericks is complicated. Let\u2019s start with who is probable to play: Marvin Bagley despite a shoulder issue, John Poulakidas, and Tyler Smith are each playing despite being Two-Way players. Then on the questionable front: only Moussa Cisse, who an\u2019t have too much eligbility left. Then we have the doubtful bunch: Daniel Gafford, who may not have an arm anymore, PJ Washington, labeled with the dreaded \u201csoreness\u201d of a body party, and lastly, Brandon Williams, doubful due to illness (he was too sick against the Lakers and helped them win).<\/p>\n
The Clippers seem to be almost entirely healthy, minus a broken Bradley Beal but what else is new there.<\/p>\n
The Clippers can\u2019t afford to lose this one. Dallas, if we\u2019re being honest about how tanking works, can\u2019t afford to win this one. SO, we\u2019ll see what happens next.<\/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 (25-53) head back out on the road for their final trip of the season. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3789],"tags":[7,559,63972,4034,192,4032,251,135,4033,4031,39459,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-704518","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-clippers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-clippers","10":"tag-dallas-mavericks-discussion","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-la-clippers","13":"tag-laclippers","14":"tag-los-angeles","15":"tag-los-angeles-clippers","16":"tag-losangeles","17":"tag-losangelesclippers","18":"tag-mavericks-game-coverage","19":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116367077309735636","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704518","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=704518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}