The LA Clippers pulled away in the second half to defeat the Dallas Mavericks, 118-110.
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00:00 The LA Clippers took a 1-0 series lead over the Dallas Mavericks on Monday night, winning
00:05 118-110 behind big games from Kawhi Leonard, Paul George, and Marcus Morris.
00:10 LA's trio of forwards combined to score 75 of the team's 118 points and each played
00:16 terrific basketball on both ends of the floor down the stretch.
00:20 Leonard logged a team-high 29 points while George snuck a dagger at the three-point range
00:24 with less than a minute to play off with Nadler for good.
00:27 Meanwhile, Marcus Morris was a team-high +25.
00:30 The Clippers got off to a hot start in the first quarter, beating the game on an 18-2
00:35 run led by, unsurprisingly, Leonard, George, and Morris.
00:38 However, the Mavericks immediately answered with a run of their own, turning a 16-point
00:42 deficit into a 14-point lead early in the second quarter.
00:46 It was a wild turn of events that had fans buzzing on Twitter, but the most significant
00:51 moment of the game happened early in the second half.
00:53 Roughly three minutes into the third quarter, Mavericks star Chris "Daps" Porzingis was
00:57 ejected after picking up his second technical foul of the game.
01:00 The first came after he reacted to a foul called against him early in the first half,
01:03 while the second stemmed from an altercation with Morris.
01:06 After Morris and Luka Doncic got tied up under the basket, Porzingis stepped in to defend
01:10 his teammate.
01:11 Both teams went to shoveling and ultimately double technical fouls were issued to Porzingis
01:15 and Morris.
01:16 Neither side was happy with the ejection.
01:19 During the game, Doc Kerber said he hated that Porzingis was out, and during Morris'
01:23 post-game media session, he said he didn't think it was enough to warrant a technical
01:27 foul on Porzingis' end.
01:29 It's hard to say whether the outcome would have been different had Porzingis been available
01:32 the second half, but fortunately for Dallas, this was only game one of what's shaping up
01:36 to already be a fun and competitive first-round series.
01:40 LA and Dallas meet again on Wednesday night for game two.
01:43 That game will air on TNT at 9pm Eastern Time.