SACRAMENTO – If the Mavericks can put together another win over Sacramento Friday night, it wouldn’t exactly give them a death grip on at least a top-six seeding in the Western Conference.
But they’d be well on their way to squeezing the life out of a few contenders for those spots, especially the Kings.
The Mavericks took Tuesday’s meeting with the Kings 132-96. They have won nine of 10 games, five in a row and, while a win Friday wouldn’t guarantee the Mavericks will avoid the play-in tournament among teams that finish seventh through 10th in the Western Conference, it would give them a favorable position going into the final nine games.