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Mavs’ second-rounders offer advice on how to get out of first round

Official Site of the Mavs | April 15, 2022

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Getting out of the first round of the playoffs is something that hasn’t been so easy to do for the Dallas Mavericks lately.

It’s been sort of like trying to get an impressionable kid to eat vegetables – kind of difficult.

The last time the Mavs advanced out of the first round of the playoffs was in 2011 when they swept Kobe Bryant and the two-time defending NBA champion Los Angeles Lakers in four games. After that series the Mavs defeated Kevin Durant, James Harden, Russell Westbrook and the Oklahoma City Thunder in five games in the Western Conference Finals.

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