PHOENIX – It’s Dorian Finney-Smith’s 29th birthday, but he said his plans to celebrate were modest.
“Getting a win, that’s it,” he said at shootaround Wednesday morning at Footprint Center.
Finney-Smith is the Mavericks Swiss Army Knife. He has many roles and do a lot of different things on the court.
Lately, he’s been their de facto center in the smallish lineup they have used on occasion. That lineup helped carve a 21-point deficit down to five in the fourth quarter of Game 1 before the Mavericks eventually lost 121-114 to slip into a 1-0 hole in the best-of-seven conference semifinals series.