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Dallas Mavs’ Luka Doncic Will Play vs. Victor Wembanyama's San Antonio Spurs; How to Watch

The Dallas Mavericks have the national spotlight against the San Antonio Spurs on ESPN tonight, but there are more ways than one to watch the highly-anticipated season opener.

Dalton Trigg

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At long last, the NBA's 2023-24 season is underway, and the Dallas Mavericks will get things started on Wednesday night against their longtime rival San Antonio Spurs.

This matchup has been highly anticipated by both team's fan bases, but also by basketball fans in general, as it will be No. 1 overall pick Victor Wembanyama's official NBA debut. Wembanyama has been the most hyped rookie prospect the league has seen since LeBron James back in 2003, so everyone is excited to see what the 7-3 phenom can do.

Meanwhile, the Mavs have Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving starting their first full season together with a modified supporting cast around them. Doncic, after being listed as questionable heading into Wednesday, was cleared to play a little more than an hour before tip off.

Doncic and Irving will surely get theirs, but the real intrigue will be seeing what Dallas is able to get out of newcomers Grant Williams, Dereck Lively II, Derrick Jones Jr., Seth Curry and others.

Luka Doncic, Kyrie Irving and Victor Wembanyama headline a star-studded opening-night matchup between the Dallas Mavericks and San Antonio Spurs on Wednesday night.
Luka Doncic, Kyrie Irving and Victor Wembanyama headline a star-studded opening-night matchup between the Dallas Mavericks and San Antonio Spurs on Wednesday night / USA TODAY Sports

After missing the playoffs last year for the first time since Doncic's rookie season in 2019, the Mavs are confident that they can turn things around and get back to the level that 2022 Western Conference Finals team was at. Only time will tell if they'll be able to pull off such a feat, but they appear to have the puzzle pieces to do it. Now, it's just about head coach Jason Kidd making those pieces fit.

The Mavs and Spurs have the national spotlight tonight on ESPN, and the game will tip off at 8:30 p.m. CT. However, if you want to watch the game from home, as well as being able to interact with us and others during the game, you can do so by joining our Mavs Step Back watch party. Just click the link below, create your free account, link your TV or streaming service, and join us for a fun time!

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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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