Stop me if you’ve heard this one before, but Dallas is set to square off against a team missing their star player. With Pascal Siakam still working back from a right abductor strain, the Mavericks should, in theory, have a foot up on a weakened squad. But as anyone who’s been watching along this season knows, that is far from a guarantee.
Dallas already has a victory over the Raptors at full strength, beating them when they came to Dallas back on November 4th, so maybe this is an instance where the Mavericks can take advantage and bounce back from a pretty ugly loss against the Celtics.