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Mavs Rank as Top 10 'Must-Watch' Team for NBA Season

As long as Luka Doncic is healthy, the Dallas Mavericks will have a chance to defeat any opponent on any given night. Because of this, ESPN's Zach Lowe has pegged the Mavs as one of the top teams to watch on NBA League Pass this season.
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Mavs Rank as Top 10 'Must-Watch' Team for NBA Season
Mavs Rank as Top 10 'Must-Watch' Team for NBA Season

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Can you feel the excitement in the air yet?

The Dallas Mavericks have a preseason "dress rehearsal" to take care of on Friday night in Utah, but after that ... the next time they play a basketball game will be the real thing, as they return to the Game 7 crime scene to take on the Phoenix Suns at 9 p.m. CT on Wednesday.

When you have Luka Doncic on your roster, you automatically become a must-watch team every season ... especially when you're coming off a playoff run to the Western Conference Finals. According to Stubhub, the Mavs' ticket demand for this season has increased by 257 percent in comparison to last season.

ESPN's Zach Lowe has jumped on the bandwagon as well, as he ranked the Mavs as one of the top teams to watch on NBA League Pass this season.

"Doncic's size and comfort in the middle of the paint – the dead zone for some ball handlers – open up endless possibilities. He's at his most predatory dragging smaller defenders into pick-and-rolls. Switch, and he mashes them in the post with smirking cruelty. (He took sadistic pleasure brutalizing Patrick Beverley in the 2021 playoffs.) Send help, and he picks you apart," writes Lowe.

"Even against like-sized defenders and traditional coverages, Doncic is a three-steps-ahead genius burrowing inside. His high-arching step-back is borderline unblockable, and he has hit 50% from floater range over the past two seasons – and a LeBron James-esque 73% at the rim last season."

Although the Mavs made it in Lowe's Top 10, they were right at No. 10 on that list. The teams ahead of Dallas included: the Los Angeles Lakers, Minnesota Timberwolves, Milwaukee Bucks, Boston Celtics, New Orleans Pelicans, Denver Nuggets, Memphis Grizzlies, Golden State Warriors and Brooklyn Nets.

Make sure your TVs don't overheat, because the Mavs will play the Grizzlies, Pelicans and Nets in the first eight days of the regular season.

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Dalton Trigg
DALTON TRIGG

Dalton Trigg is the Editor-In-Chief for Dallas Basketball, as well as the Executive Editor overseeing Inside The Rockets, Inside The Spurs, All Knicks, and The Magic Insider. He is the founder and host for the Mavs Step Back Podcast, which is a proud part of the Blue Wire podcast network. Trigg graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi’s College of Business and Economic Development with a bachelor’s degree in entrepreneurship in 2016. After spending a few years with multiple Dallas Mavericks-related blogs, including SB Nation’s Mavs Moneyball, Trigg joined DallasBasketball.com as a staff writer in 2018 and never looked back. At the start of 2022, he was promoted to the EIC title he holds now. Through the years, Trigg has conducted a handful of high-profile one-on-one interviews to add to his resume — in both writing and podcasting. Some of his biggest interviews have been with Mavs owner Mark Cuban, Mavs GM Nico Harrison, now-retired legend Dirk Nowitzki and many other current/former players and team staffers. Many of those interviews and other articles by Trigg have been aggregated by other well-known sports media websites, such as Yahoo Sports, CBS Sports, Bleacher Report and others. You can find Trigg on all major social media channels, but his most prevalent platform is on Twitter. Whether it’s posting links to his DBcom work, live-tweeting Mavs games or merely giving his opinions on things going on with Dallas and the rest of the NBA, the daily content never stops rolling. For any inquiries, please email Dalton@MavsStepBack.com.

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