LISTEN: Luka Doncic & Kyrie Irving Mesh Well in Blowout Win; Justin Holiday Dazzles in Debut

The Dallas Mavericks are rested and ready to roll in the final stretch of the 2022-23 season. Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving kicked things off with a blowout win over the San Antonio Spurs on Thursday night.

Dalton Trigg | Feb 24, 2023

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Luka Doncic, Kyrie Irving and the Dallas Mavericks got back on track with a 142-116 win over the San Antonio Spurs on Thursday night, ending a three-game skid that took them into the All-Star break.

Doncic led the way with 28 points, seven rebounds and 10 assists through the first three quarters, but it was Irving’s push in the early stages of the fourth quarter that blew the game open and kept Doncic from having to re-enter. Irving finished with 23 points and six assists in just 30 minutes.

Dallas’ dynamic duo securing its first win was nice to see, but the debut of veteran shooting guard Justin Holiday was even better. In 22 minutes off the bench, Holiday put up 15 points on 5-6 shooting from deep while playing solid defense as well.

On today’s episode of the Mavs Step Back Podcast, we recap the Mavs’ slump-busting win against the Spurs, discuss the budding chemistry between Doncic and Irving, applaud Holiday for his immaculate Dallas debut and finally, preview Sunday’s matinee matchup with LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers on ABC.

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Published Feb 24, 2023

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.