The Dallas Mavericks didn't trade for Kyrie Irving just to win a few regular season games and make it out of the first round of the Western Conference playoffs.
The Mavs took on the controversial Irving, who turns 31 in March, to make a run at a championship. We still don't know if Dallas is good enough to beat teams like the Denver Nuggets.
The Nuggets are the best team in the West by five games. They're 40-18. Dallas and the Phoenix Suns made huge trade deadline moves, but the Nuggets might still be the team to beat.