always play hard at sa, even if they dont have nowitzki, butler
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always play hard at sa, even if they dont have nowitzki, butler
It doesn't matter as long as the Spurs are winning.
Dirk out
SAN ANTONIO -- Dallas Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle didn't have to provide the daily injury update after Friday morning's shootaround. A sweaty, scowling Dirk Nowitzki took care of that.
"There's nothing to talk about. I'm out for tonight," Nowitzki said of Friday night's matchup against the San Antonio Spurs.
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The Spurs, owners of the league's best record at 33-6, have opened a six-game bulge on the Mavericks. It will be the ninth consecutive game in which Nowitzki has been sidelined with a sprained right knee.
Nowitzki had little desire to talk after his most rigorous workout of his recovery process. He did not participate in team drills once again, but Friday morning marked the first time in which he went one-one-one with another player, making contact during offensive and defensive drills to test the knee in game-type situations.
He and center Alexis Ajinca went back-and-forth, with Ajinca guarding Nowitzki as he practiced an array of offensive moves, including his trademark fallaway jumper, and then with Nowitzki guarding Ajinca.
The 7-foot-1 Ajinca, who made his first start of the season in Wednesday's game at Indiana, said he expects to start again at power forward vs. the Spurs.
Chandler is maybe out as well
Spurs by 18
Is this Dirk knee the same one that Manu fell against in 2003 WCFs?
mahinmi lovers will be comin out tonight! Win or Lose well have 10 threads about how we should have kept Yawn if Chandler doesn't play.
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After flipping sides in the Interstate-35 rivalry, going from San Antonio to Dallas last offseason, Mahinmi is not ashamed to admit that he’s been rooting against the Spurs no matter who they are playing. No hard feelings against his ex-team. It’s just the business of a rivalry.
“Every night, I’m watching, hoping we can catch them,” Mahinmi said. “It seems like they never lose.”
Mahinmi still counts many of his former teammates as friends. He holds no animosity towards the team brass for dumping him. When the Spurs were in Dallas before New Year’s, Mahinmi joined Gregg Popovich and other Spurs officials for dinner.
“I’m happy for them, that they’re doing good,” Mahinmi added. “But we’re trying to catch them.”
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Matt Bonner practiced with a black sleeve on his sore right knee, but is expected to be available tonight.
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Mavericks power forward Dirk Nowitzki won’t be in uniform for tonight’s Spurs-Mavericks game at AT&T Center.
The 2006-07 Most Valuable player declared after the Mavericks’ morning shootaround that he would miss his ninth consecutive game. The Mavericks are 2-6 since Nowitzki suffered a right knee injury.
Dallas’ starting center, Tyson Chandler, didn’t participate in the shootaround, remaining at the team’s downtown hotel with a sore throat. His availability for the game will be evaluated in the hours before tipoff.
Chandler is a little bitch. Dude better get his ass on the court.
I heard Chandler got salmonella poisoning from getting bad chicken at the KFC.
I never saw anything in Ian that impressed me, nothing.
Maybe he and the Hof had some fun time last night?
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Oh my god ... Jason Terry is such an idiot
... and Pop is hilarious "I'd rather be at dinner than playing the Mavs without Nowitzki"