LISTEN: Luka Doncic, Kyrie Irving Back to Work as Mavs Face Spurs; Injury Updates

After a long NBA All-Star break, the Dallas Mavericks face the San Antonio Spurs to begin a six-game homestand. Can Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving finally get their first win as a star duo?

Dalton Trigg | Feb 23, 2023

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As great as Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving have looked as a star duo on offense in the limited two-game sample size we got to witness before the NBA All-Star break, there’s still something they haven’t been able to do together -- win a game.

Doncic and Irving have a great opportunity to change that on Thursday night as the Dallas Mavericks (31-29) take on the lottery-bound San Antonio Spurs (14-45) to start a six-game homestand at American Airlines Center.

On this episode of the Mavs Step Back Podcast, we preview Thursday’s game, where Dallas is favored by 13.5 points. We also give a full injury report update, including the slightly-delayed return of Maxi Kleber, who was initially expected to return after the All-Star break.

After the Mavs and Spurs square off, Dallas will turn its attention to LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers on Saturday. The game will tip-off at 2 p.m. CT on ABC, and it’s one of the highest-priced NBA matchups this week due to the star power involved.

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Published Feb 23, 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.