Dallas Mavericks Kristaps Porzingis Mandatory Credit: Kevin Jairaj-USA TODAY Sports
The Dallas Mavericks are a dangerous team when healthy. They proved it in the bubble by putting the LA Clippers on the ropes in their first-round playoff series. Kristaps Porzingis suffered a knee injury that forced him to miss the final three games as the heavily-favored Clips knocked off the Mavs in six.
Porzingis missed the first nine regular-season games recovering from his offseason surgery. The Unicorn had no training camp and was always going to need a few games to ramp up.