🏀 The Draw: Mavs Try To Avoid Sweep

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In Today’s Edition: Mavs try to avoid Finals sweep, Game 4 Injury Report, Luka’s Game 4 mindset

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• Mavs try to avoid Finals sweep

  • Teams that have fallen behind 3-0 in the NBA playoffs are 0-156 & just 4 teams have forced a Game 7

  • The Mavs have never been swept in a 4 game playoff series dating back to 1980

  • The Celtics are 7-0 on the road & are looking to have the best playoff road record of any finals winner

• Game 4 Injury Report

  • Porzingis suffered a rare left leg injury in the third quarter of Game 2 against the Mavericks last Sunday

  • His status for Game 4 remains uncertain

  • Luka Doncic is listed as “probable” with a chest bruise he has played through for a couple of games

  • He will likely get another pain-killing injection before Game 4

• Luka’s Game 4 mindset

  • After Game 3 Luka was complaining after the loss, blaming the officials for him fouling out instead of his poor effort on defense

  • He has since changed his mindset for how he plans to attack Game 4, saying he will:

  • "Go back to playing fun"

Tonight’s Games 🏀

• 8:30pm ET Celtics @ Mavs

  • Celtics lead 3-0

Tonight’s Deck 🃏

⛹🏽‍♂️ 29 Total Players

🤕 Injured Players (in deck):

• Kristaps Porzingis (Leg)

• Luka Doncic (Chest)

⭐️ Top Players (PPG/2024 Finals):

• Luka Doncic (30)

• Jaylen Brown (24)

• Jayson Tatum (22)

• Kyrie Irving (21)

• Derrick White (16)

• PJ Washington (15)

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