Another Western Conference contender was hit by an injury, and it wasn’t the Lakers, for once.

The Dallas Mavericks will lose Dirk Nowitzki for at least two weeks because of what the team called a “left lower leg injury,” a diagnosis that made Lakers Coach Phil Jackson wince.

“I think all of us in this race are all holding our breath collectively one game after another because it is so tenuous,” he said. “If ballplayers do go down, it can spell either changing a tremendous amount of position from home court to not home court, or maybe even being bumped out of the playoffs.” - LA Times

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