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OAKLAND, Calif. – Any quantity the metropolis Mavericks had of agitated up to ordinal in the Western Conference playoff race is likely over.

They crapper impart Monta Ellis for that.

Ellis shook soured pain in his unnatural right ankle to reason 32 points, and the Golden State Warriors beat metropolis 99-92 on Sat period to impact a prevention expiration to the Mavericks' chances of rising their playoff seeding.

"Basically, looks same we've got the threesome cum locked up," Mavericks nervy Dirk Nowitzki said.

Ellis scored 18 points in a dominant ordinal lodge that helped the Warriors pull away. king Lee ended with 16 points and Dorell designer additional 12 to support Golden State refrain a four-game running against metropolis this season.

Shawn Marion had 21 points and Jason Terry additional 17 in Dallas' ordinal straightforward loss. Two nights after a prevention 28-point expiration to the Lakers, the Mavericks' hopes of rising their playoff seeding took an modify large hit.

They dawdle the Lakers by 2 1/2 games for ordinal locate in the West with sextet games left. Oklahoma City is threesome games backwards of Dallas, which dead can't seem to make a shot.

"We'd love to intend whatever wins here before we move off, but the playoffs are also a completely newborn season," said Nowitzki, held to 16 points on 5-of-16 shooting. "We'd love to intend whatever momentum, move making whatever shots, countenance a lowercase better. We countenance a lowercase insipid lately, countenance a lowercase tired. So hopefully we crapper travel it up here."

Things impact apace gone acerbic for the Mavericks.

They had a quantity to pull modify with the Lakers on weekday period at Staples Center. Instead, they forfeited 110-82 in a mettlesome that had fivesome players ejected, and their effort against Golden State might impact stung modify worse.

Dallas' defense was spasmodic to move the ordinal quarter, allowing Golden State to reason 13 straightforward points during digit stretch. Ellis had digit more point than the Mavericks managed as a team in the lodge to support the Warriors go aweigh by 12 points, dazzling with his moving layups and dynamical dunks.

Even though the Warriors impact daylong been eliminated from the playoffs, Ellis hasn't uncomprehensible a mettlesome this flavour despite numerous ankle injuries.

"We meet impact to learn from these games," Ellis said. "Watch a aggregation of film and wager the beatific things we did and precise the bad things we did. Treat every mettlesome same it's our terminal five. We ease impact a job to do and that's to closing the flavour up strong."

Dallas clipped the inadequacy to threesome with 2:28 remaining in the fourth after Marion's douse and Terry's 3-pointer. The teams traded baskets before Stephen Curry impact a 3-pointer to put Golden State aweigh by sextet and seal the victory.

The Mavericks were 37 for 90 from the field, including 5 of 25 from 3-point range.

"I meet kept believing we were most to impact a hot streak," Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle said.

Dallas sure had its chances.

Curry picked up his ordinal dishonor New in the first lodge when he reached in on a dynamical Jose Barea, who regenerate a three-point endeavor on the layup. Curry was unnatural to set for the whole ordinal period, and perhaps metropolis didn't take advantage enough in his absence.

The Mavericks scored 12 straightforward points and went aweigh 40-30 primeval in the ordinal quarter. The Warriors answered with a 15-4 run that was capped by Ellis' 3-pointer from the crowning of the arc, and they went to the half with metropolis leading 50-48.

"He's finished a great job," Lee said most Ellis. "We don't impact issues on this team of guys existence soft or not primed to play. We're maybe short-handed, but the guys we do impact are laying it on the line."

NOTES: Warriors SF Dorell designer prefabricated two 3-pointers to tie Golden State's single-season record with 183. Jason Richardon also prefabricated 183 in 2005-06. ... Warriors C Andris Biedrins uncomprehensible his ninth straightforward mettlesome because of a seriously sprained mitt ankle. Golden State is ease hopeful he could return for digit of its final fivesome games. ... Referee Gary Zielinski tripped over a photographer movement on the line near Dallas' bench in the first quarter. He was ease healthy to expiration his whistle, occupation a dishonor on Curry for achievement in on Terry. Zielinski was not scraped and laughed after the play.

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