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The Dallas Mavericks (4-3) no doubt have a bad taste in their mouths after Monday’s 115-100 loss to the bottom-dwelling Sacramento Kings. And despite the San Antonio Spurs’ own stumbling start to the 2026-27 season, a trip to the Frost Bank Center may not be the easiest palate cleanser to swallow.
After back-to-back losses to start the year, San Antonio (5-2) has found its stride in five straight wins as all-universe life form Victor Wembanyama has started to heat up, scoring 36 and 43 points in back-to-back games last week. He only had to play 24 minutes in the Spurs’ 119-97 win over the Utah Jazz on Monday, which means he’s been resting up for the matchup against the Mavericks since sometime in the third quarter, close to a full 48 hours before Wednesday’s tip. The Spurs host the rival Mavs at 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday.
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Here are three giant obstacles the Mavs will have to climb in order to get a win against last year’s NBA Finalists from the Western Conference.
Last time out
We’re just 10 days removed, as of this writing, from the season’s first matchup between the Spurs and the Mavericks, San Antonio suffocated Dallas, which was without second-year superstar Cooper Flagg do to a shoulder injury, 122-106, in that one.
Without Flagg, who was nursing a shoulder injury, and with Kyrie Irving sitting out suffering from “injury management” on the second night of the first back-to-back set of the season, the young Spaniard Sergio de Larrea took the reins for the Mavericks and turned heads for 21 points on 9-of-15 shooting (3-of-4 from 3-point range) in just his third-ever NBA game. The undermanned Dallas bunch kept it close for three quarters before San Antonio put the Mavs away late behind a balanced effort that saw Wembanyama score a game-high 23 points and Dylan Harper add 22 more.
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The Mavs will show the Spurs a completely different look this time around, with Flagg and Irving fully operational for the marquee matchup. Irving was taken off the injury report after sitting out his second game of the year against the Kings. The pair combined for 68 points in the last game they appeared in…
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