00:00The Dallas Mavericks welcome in the best of the Western Conference in the Oklahoma City
00:08Thunder and win 106 to 98.
00:11OKC was down by 20 points at the half, but quickly erased that deficit in just 8 minutes.
00:18Even without its star player in Shea Gilgis Alexander, who didn't play in this one due
00:23to a wrist injury.
00:25While Kyrie Irving was questionable with a back injury before this one, he led all scorers
00:29with his 25 points.
00:31Three others for the Mavericks scored in double figures, including both B.J. Washington and
00:36Spencer Dinwiddie with 16 and Najee Marshall with 14.
00:41Mavericks head coach Jason Kidd says he's too old to have a chip on his shoulder when
00:45thinking back to the controversial loss on Wednesday to the New Orleans Pelicans.
00:49Kidd says a game like that one and this one really helped those young players learn how
00:54to play in close games.
00:56I'm too old to have a chip on my shoulder.
00:59It's about development and being able to put you guys in a position to win and to learn
01:04from winning and losing.
01:06Right now we're doing both.
01:08We've lost, but we've learned from that.
01:10We've bounced back.
01:12This team has a lot of grit and at some point, hopefully this season we can be healthy.
01:20But next man up and so we got to keep pushing forward.
01:23The Mavericks play next in Charlotte on Monday, but will return back to the American Airlines
01:28Center next Wednesday to host the Minnesota Timberwolves.
01:31For all things Dallas Mavericks, you can tune in to Spectrum Cable Channel 15 on Wednesday
01:35and Thursday nights at 11.
01:38For D210 Sports, I'm Sydney Staples and you've just been Credentialed.
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