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As Mavs Chase Lakers, Are KP's Dallas Days Numbered? Podcast

On this episode of the Mavs Step Back Podcast, Dalton Trigg and Matt Galatzan discuss the Dallas Mavericks loss to the Houston Rockets, Luka Doncic needing more help from his other starters, and the Kristaps Porzingis drama. Are his days in Dallas numbered?
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As Mavs Chase Lakers, Are KP's Dallas Days Numbered? Podcast
As Mavs Chase Lakers, Are KP's Dallas Days Numbered? Podcast

Despite suffering a very disappointing setback against the Houston Rockets on Wednesday night, the Dallas Mavericks are still very much in the race for a Top-6 seed in the Western Conference. The Mavs must secure the sixth seed or higher to avoid being in the NBA's play-in tournament at the regular season's end.

As of today, Dallas is still just two games behind the Portland Trail Blazers for the sixth seed. And it's even more interesting that the Mavs are just three games back of the Los Angeles Lakers in the loss column. With LeBron James and Anthony Davis both battling injuries for at least a couple more weeks, the Mavs have a real shot to pass them up in the standings, especially given that the Mavs and Lakers will play two games against each other from April 22-24. But... in order to make the leap, Dallas can't have another repeat of the mess we witnessed in Houston.

On this episode of the Mavs Step Back Podcast, Dalton Trigg and Matt Galatzan discuss the disappointing Houston loss that happened just two days after the team triumphantly defeated the league-best Utah Jazz. How worried should we be about this team playing down to its competition? Could that mindset come into play if the Mavs end up in the play-in tournament? Should the league even have a play-in tournament?

Finally, and most importantly, we talk about Kristaps Porzingis' passive-aggressive postgame comments from the Houston game. Was Porzingis' displeasure with his lack of touches in the fourth quarter warranted? Are KP's days in Dallas numbered? Let's talk about it.

READ MORE: Porzingis Peeved? Mavs Star Goes Passive-Aggressive After Loss

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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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