Many fans on social media are clamoring for the Mavericks to lose enough games to keep their 2023 first-round pick. Might the team's brain trust decide to sit...
Dallas owes its 2023 first-round pick to the Knicks – unless the pick falls within the top 10, in which case the Mavericks would keep it.
Thus the conundrum for the Mavericks and their fans entering this regular season’s last three games, all of them at home: Sacramento ; Chicago ; San Antonio .a play-in berth and Hail Mary shot at a meaningful playoff run? To gain a play-in berth, Dallas would need to win two more games than tenth-place Oklahoma City or three more than ninth-place Minnesota because both teams own the tie-breaker of the Mavericks.
Oklahoma City plays at Golden State, which is sixth in the West and fighting to avoid the play-in tournament. A Thunder loss would give Dallas a chance to tie OKC record-wise with a win Wednesday.