Which West Teams Can the Dallas Mavericks Catch?

The Dallas Mavericks have won 3 straight to climb to 7-4, and they’re just 2.5 games out of first in a crowded NBA Western Conference. Which West teams can Cooper Flagg, Kyrie Irving, and the Mavs actually catch, and is a top-6 seed now realistic?

Nick Angstadt and Isaac Harris rank every Western Conference team into tiers, from the elite Los Angeles Lakers and San Antonio Spurs down to the Utah Jazz and Sacramento Kings. They debate whether the Oklahoma City Thunder are catchable without Chet Holmgren and Jalen Williams, and whether the Minnesota Timberwolves (without Anthony Edwards) and the Houston Rockets are clearly above Dallas. They also look at whether Stephen Curry, Yaxel Lendeborg, and the Golden State Warriors, Ty Jerome’s Memphis Grizzlies, the Portland Trail Blazers, and Nikola Jokic’s Denver Nuggets are for real, plus why stealth tanking could show up at the end of the season.

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