The Lakers stroll into American Airlines Center as 6.5-point road chalk against a Mavericks team that’s 24-53 and hemorrhaging 119 a night—Dallas is essentially a layup line with lighting. L.A. just humiliated OKC by 43, owns the league’s No. 3 offense at 116.5, and gets to face a shell roster missing Irving, Lively II and maybe P.J. Washington (illness); that’s not a mismatch, it’s a scheduled coronation.
Dallas will trot out rookie gunner C. Flagg (20.8 ppg) and a front line held together by tape and prayer, while the Lakers list Reaves and Smart as probable and have already ruled out Dončić—irrelevant against this opponent. Hammer the over or fade the spread, then swing by StreakChat to watch the carnage in real time.