NBA: Golden State Warriors at Dallas Mavericks on BBC as play-off race heats up

Stephan Curry's Golden State Warriors and Kyrie Irving's Dallas Mavericks person played against each different doubly this season, with each winning astatine home

NBA champions the Golden State Warriors indispensable amusement "urgency" if they are to marque the play-offs, says Klay Thompson.

Five-time NBA All-Star Thompson said they indispensable "take each crippled seriously".

The Warriors sojourn the Dallas Mavericks connected Wednesday successful a lucifer that volition beryllium shown unrecorded connected BBC One astatine 23:30 GMT.

The Warriors prevarication sixth successful the Western Conference, with the Mavericks, having played 1 crippled fewer, successful eighth.

"As a competitor, you relish successful the moments of the astir important games, and we're coming down to the agelong and each crippled is captious for our play-off stakes, it's breathtaking times," added Thompson.

"You ever play 82 games and it's pugnacious to beryllium large successful each of them. With 9 [games] left, we person got to dainty these similar a play-off buffer and I cognize we will."

In a replay of past season's Western Conference Final, immoderate of the biggest NBA stars volition beryllium successful action.

For the Warriors, four-time NBA champions Stephen Curry and Thompson volition beryllium connected the court.

Representing the Mavericks, eight-time NBA All-Star Kyrie Irving played connected Monday against the Memphis Grizzlies but aft the match, was seen wearing a protective walking footwear aft re-aggravating a toed injury.

However, Irving says that this was conscionable a precaution and that helium volition "exhaust each options imaginable to play".

Irving signed for the Mavericks from the Brooklyn Nets successful February, wherever his 3 and-a-half-year spell was tainted with controversy.

He chose not to beryllium vaccinated against Covid-19, which meant helium was incapable to play location games until March 2022 due to the fact that of New York's prohibition connected unvaccinated radical successful indoor venues.

In November, helium was suspended for 8 games for posting a nexus connected his societal media to a movie containing anti-Semitic material, which helium aboriginal apologised for.

Another large sanction for the Mavericks, Luka Doncic, is acceptable to miss Wednesday's lucifer due to the fact that the Slovenian has a thigh injury.

Doncic and Irving, seen arsenic a cardinal pairing for the Mavericks, person not featured unneurotic since 8 March.