With absolutely nothing on the line in terms of playoff seedings, the Dallas Mavericks spent Thursday afternoon losing to the Phoenix Suns, 128-102, at AdventHealth Arena in the bubble in Orlando.
The Mavs finished the regular season with a 43-32 record and will open their first playoff series since 2016 early next week in a best-of-seven series against the Los Angeles Clippers.
Kristaps Porzingis didn’t play against the Suns, and starters Luka Doncic, Tin Hardaway Jr., Dorian Finney-Smith and Seth Curry didn’t play in the second half. That describes the level of interest the Mavs had in a game where they entered already locked into the Western Conference’s No.