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Finney-Smith defending everybody, except maybe pre-teens

Dorian Finney-Smith has been getting a lot of love for his defensive stands recently against LeBron James, Steph Curry, Donovan Mitchell and others.

That’s nothing.

Try playing D against a houseful of pre-teens.

His daughter, Sinai, turned 12 recently and had a slumber party after a Mavericks’ win.

“Right after the game, I had (lots of) girls in the house,” Finney-Smith said. “But we had fun. I kept getting kicked out of their space. She’s 12, so now she thinks she knows more than me.”

Asked if she knew Finney-Smith had been working that night, he said: “She told me: good game.