It comes down to this for the Mavericks.
After boycotts and talks and coalitions and all the things that have transpired since Tuesday, they still face the same daunting challenge: they have to win on Sunday afternoon or their season is over.
They have beaten the Los Angeles Clippers twice, once without Kristaps Porzingis.
The Mavericks trail 3-2 in the best-of-seven first-round series. Neither team has won two games in a row. The Mavericks hope to keep that trend – and their basketball lives – going.
“We need to believe in ourselves,” Boban Marjanoviu0107 said on Saturday.