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MAVERICKS at KINGS | #SoFiPlayIn | FULL GAME HIGHLIGHTS | April 16, 2025



MAVERICKS at KINGS | #SoFiPlayIn | FULL GAME HIGHLIGHTS | April 16, 2025

The Dallas Mavericks defeated the Sacramento Kings, 120-106. Anthony Davis led the Mavericks with 27 points and 9 rebounds, while Klay Thompson added 23 points and 5 3PM in the victory. DeMar DeRozan tallied 33 points and 7 rebounds for the Kings in the loss. The Mavericks advance and will face the Memphis Grizzlies on Friday, April 18th and the winner will clinch the #8 seed in the Western Conference, while the Kings have been eliminated from making the postseason.

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48 Comments

  4. @murahk123

    LMFAOOOOO i mean you have derozan, sabonis, keegan murray, zach lavine, valanciunus with malik monk (unfortunate he's injured). literally an all-star lineup and you still can't win? hahahahahhaha

  10. @Louie-w9h

    If Mavs upset the Thunder. Maybe the Dallas front office is the best office in the world 💀💀

  16. @FaithfulReasoning

    There are some players you can never win with like Derozen, Levine, Morant, Ball brothers, Beal, PG, they are just collecting money that's all.

  22. @ph43draaa

    Just get rid of this dumbass play-in. What a waste of time watching these flawed non-contending teams

  26. @uglyboi2735

    I don't know what happened to the Kings. They were on the come up when Fox, Monk, and Sabonis. Once they got DeRozan, I knew it was over. Not that he's bad, he just took away from that system they had before that and now they are back being so bad.

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  34. @RodGbc

    Imagine Dallas next year when all their players are healthy? Sheezz. 😅 WC have a huge problem beating them at the PlayOffs Season.

  41. @mattotto157

    Funny how he says that Dallas' injuries are one of the reasons for their losing record since the Luka Doncic trade. It's THE reason, there are no other reasons. Imagine you as a Mav's player and this goes down in the middle of a season where you went to the finals the year before… You take away a franchise player from a team, by trading them away under suspicious circumstances, get AD in return who's good, but not someone that can fill Luka's shoes and he gets injured almost immediately which is part of what you get with AD, and he's not the guy Ky & Klay move to Dallas to play with. Imagine how disheartening, they thought like any normal team would, that they are one good move away from a championship, instead, when nobody expected it, Nico torpedo's any chance of them having a repeat and potentially even improve on last season and win a championship! That's how their season started. Once the trade went through, every player completely lost faith in their front office, and the front offices desire to even win is not clear. The reality sets in as every player on that team probably considered themselves to have a bright future with the team with the Magic that luka bring with him everywhere he goes, a shoe-in for the hall of fame at least, possibly or even plausibly a top 10 all-time player pf all time once he retires. So morale goes into the toilet and a feeling of unease with regards to the head offices plans. If they are capable of such an illogical move, then are we playing to win? Is the team being gutted? Why am I on this team again? Luka was the mavericks, and Kyrie was playing the best basketball of his career. Under a year ago, they were calling ky and Luka possibly the best back court in history. And knowing that was basically given up, aside from ad its not like they got a ton of 1st round picks for the future, when they could and should have gotten one of the biggest hauls for any trade ever. So again, does the teams upper mgmt even want us to win?

    Also injuries can easily be explained by the fact that Luka who is an on-ball player, and the offence runs through him usually, and sometimes through ky. Once luka was gone, Ky knew that he had to step up, played his all off to give the people of dallas something to cheer about, and suffers a potentially career ending, and at minimum, a career altering injury. This was unfoubtedly a wear and tear injury from pushing himself to do his best to fill the gap luka left behind, and pushed himself too far and hurt himself. Not to mention that not even the coach was aware of this, so no preparation was made. They had to go out there and play while still processing what just happened. No team can win if prominent members of the organization don't want them to win. The payers themselves dont know if this is the start of more bad trades, of if that was it. Are they going to make moves to improve the team or keep making it worse. You just cant play with confidence if you dont feel that the entire organization is behind you.

    The player are bitter and angry, they feel cheated, they know that they no longer have on of the most lethal offensive players around, they were lied to that this was a basketball decision when it was clearly anything but, with that kind of dumpster fire of an organization actively trying to undermine the teams success. If you factor all that in, its a miracle their record is just bad and not catastrophic.

    I dont know who to root for. I'm a dallas fan, but was also a big Luka, Ky, and Klay fan, but since the trade went down, i lost all hope and it honestly hurt watching them play without him, then watching Ky go down.

    *** KYRIE WAS INJURED BECAUSE HE HAD TO BE THE ONLY BALL HANDLER ON THE TEAM AFTER LUKA, AND YOU CAN TELL HE FELT HIS JOB WAS TO WIN AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE TO SHOW THE FRONT OFFICE AND SHOW THE FANS AND HIS TEAMMATES THAT THEIR TEAM IS STILL COMPETITIVE. It's obvious that he wouldnt have gotten hurt had it not been for his attempt to mitigate the hopelessness everyone was feeling. Kyrie DEPENDS on his speed, and maybe be one of the best ball handlers of all time. This goes beyond the team, if he loses even a small percentage of his speed, we've all lost out on watching this man do what he's been known to do best, and depending on the severity of the injury, we may never see Ky break someone's ankles EVER AGIN! Let that thought sit with you for a second. The greatest back court in NBA history, and suddenly the team is missing both. Coach Kidd didnt know until after it happened so its not like they had much time to design a new offence around Ky and AD,

    So I WANT dallas to win to shove it in their faces that they can take their top player from then but you cant take away their desire and ability ability to win. But i'd also like them to lose, because if they make the playoffs and make a run to the finals, and if by some miracle NICO will be hailed as a genius. If that somehow ends up happening iss that Nico gains legitimacy, because i dont believe that he believes that this is a better team than before. He made a scummy move, and the only thing that can redeem him would be a championship. That's the only way you can imorive from last year.

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