The Dallas Mavericks (27-41) are back home to face the Cleveland Cavaliers (17-52) tonight, a test for two teams sitting near the bottom of the league standings. For the Cavs, a team that has been climbing an uphill battle all season, has gone 6-9 in their last 15 games. While the Mavericks, a team on one of the more unique nosedives in recent memory, are 2-13 in the same stretch.
Call it development opportunity, call it a tank-off, call it whatever you’d like, these two will do battle Saturday night during the final stretch where every team is staring at the standings — top or bottom.