I'm sure no one could see this coming.
After the Houston Rockets and Dallas Mavericks spent much of the last calendar year engaging in wars of words—the chemistry comments are one of many examples, and you can find so many more in this article by Yahoo Sports' Adrian Wojnarowski—they're set to engage in a first-round playoff clash that begins Saturday night.
It didn't take long for Mavs owner Mark Cuban to lob in the first grenade, offering some billboard material to a Houston squad that may not even need any, per Grantland's Kirk Goldsberry:
[The biggest difference is] practice time.