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Has it been possible for the Mavs to prove that they could beat a healthy Lakers or Kings team this year? Or is there anything that the Mavs could have done to have proven that they could? If they had won at Indiana on Thanksgiving, their only loss in 18 tries, would that have proved it? If they were winning by a bigger average margin that 13+ points, tops in the NBA? What could they have done? If you look at team stastistics the Mavs are near the top of almost every meaninful stastistic, do they need to #1 in all?
My opinion is that the Mavs can prove that they can beat a healthy Lakers or Kings or Denver or Miami or any team that they have not played or who they have played when the team wasn't healthy is to beat that team when the team is healthy. The Mavs don't control their own destiny in this matter. They weren't the ones who put the Lakers and the Kings in the ICU. All the Mavs can and should worry about is beating the teams, healthy or not, who show up to play them every night. There is no iron clad decree that the Mavs will ever play a healthy Lakers or Kings team this year. Even last year in the playoffs, Peja was hurt for the Kings for most of the series. If the Mavs go all the way this year to the finals and win, but never beat a "healthy" Lakers or Kings team does that mean that David Stern has to put an * by their name as champions?
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