Sixty games into the NBA season, it’s become clear that the Mavericks are, at the least, going to be playing beyond the end of the 82-game grind.
The Western Conference has 10 teams that are above .500 and have separated themselves from the bottom five.
Six of those teams will qualify for the playoffs. The teams that end up seventh through 10th will conduct the play-in tournament with the two survivors filling the seventh and eighth seeds in the West.
Right now, the Mavericks are ninth with a 32-28 record.