Saturday afternoon’s game between the Dallas Mavericks and Boston Celtics is not just another regular season contest.
No one would buy that description anyway since it was the Celtics who defeated the Mavs in five games in last season’s NBA Finals. But Mavs forward P. J. Washington did say:
“We know what happened last year. But it’s a regular-season game and we try to go out there and do our jobs.
“I’m not really worried about it. Every single one of (the games) are circled for me.”
This is the first meeting between the Mavs and Celtics since they faced each other in last year’s Finals.