From his perspective, Dirk Nowitzki has no doubt that Dallas Mavericks coach Jason Kidd will be able to pick up where
Not only did the Mavs defeat the Utah Jazz in the first round of last year’s playoffs after Luka Doncic missed the first three games of that best-of-seven series with a strained left calf. But the Mavs went on to surpass even greater odds when they smashed the top-ranked Suns in Phoenix in a winner-take-all Game 7, 123-90, en route to advancing to the Western Conference Finals for the first time since 2011 when they captured their lone NBA championship.