LOS ANGELES – It’s game day, and one caveat the Dallas Mavericks have working in their favor entering Game 1 of their best-of-seven playoff series against the Los Angeles Clippers is that the Clippers haven’t played against this Mavs team.
Sure, the Clippers played the Mavs three times this season, and won two of them. But all three of those games occurred 26 games before the Mavs acquired center Daniel Gafford and forward P.J. Washington in separate trades on Feb. 8.
The lingering question is, since the Clips haven’t seen this Dallas team up close this season, does that give the Mavs a distinct advantage when the series tips off at 2:30 p.