Stoppable force, meet movable object! After falling to the New York Knicks 113-111 Wednesday night, the Dallas Mavericks are currently looking ahead to the second game of their brief three-game stint, where they will face off against Zion Williamson and the 15-seed New Orleans Pelicans. Technically speaking, this is an NBA Cup game – but lest you delude yourselves into believing this game has stakes, remember that both the Mavericks and the Pelicans are already 0-2 in their previous cup games.

The Pelicans come into town fighting through an absolute slog of a schedule. In the last week, they’ve played the Denver Nuggets, the Oklahoma City Thunder, the Golden State Warriors, and the Los Angeles Lakers – three of whom hold top-4 seeds in the Western Conference, and all of whom handled busin

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