Lakers’ Blowout Far From Sellout : Pro basketball: A 33-point victory over Dallas is a season high, but attendance is lowest since 1980.

Their schedule showed the Lakers getting three days off before playing Wednesday night, then getting two more days off. Correction: There was no game Wednesday--only Lakers 124, Dallas Mavericks 91.

Many people must have seen it coming, because practically no one came, only 10,319, the smallest crowd for a Laker home game since Nov. 18, 1980. The reward was to watch Elden Campbell get a game-high 18 points along with seven rebounds, four blocks and three steals, and the Mavericks lose their 10th consecutive game to drop to 1-13.

The Lakers won their third straight, but more important, after a five-game trip that ended with victories by two and four points, got a break. How much of a break? The 33-point margin, thanks to a season-high 60.2% shooting, was their biggest since Feb. 14 last season and more than the five previous wins of 1993-94 combined.

“It was nice,” Coach Randy Pfund said after the Lakers improved to 6-9. “We sat on the bench, the coaching staff, and said, ‘Geez, it seems like a long time since we’ve had that kind of game. Years.’ ”

Said Campbell: “It’s been a while since we didn’t have to play in the fourth quarter. As a team, it’s nice to get a game like this under your belt.”

For the Mavericks, it was another tough night. They shot 44.3%, hardly bad enough to trigger a blowout, but had 28 turnovers and 21 assists.

The tone was set early:

The Mavericks called a 20-second timeout on their first possession.

They converted that into one free throw, then got Popeye Jones’ hook in the lane the next trip down for a 3-2 lead. So much for the Dallas highlights.

The Lakers needed only 3:43 to build a double-digit lead, 17-6, and pushed that to 14 points in the first quarter. They went up by as many as 21 in the second and led by no less than 16 most of that period, finally taking a 60-44 advantage into halftime.

Seeking their first three-game winning streak since near the midpoint of last season, the Lakers at least were at full strength, no sure thing at the start of the day because of Vlade Divac’s sprained middle finger.

Divac, who came in as the first Laker in three years to lead the team in rebounding for nine straight games, suffered the injury on his right hand Monday in practice, sat out Tuesday’s workout, then returned for Wednesday’s shootaround. He started against the Mavericks with the hand, still noticeably swollen around the top knuckle, taped.

He played 19 minutes in the first half, long enough to contribute eight points, six rebounds and four assists. Campbell and James Worthy had 10 points each before intermission to lead a Laker offense that shot 57.1%.

Laker Notes

Nick Van Exel leads the team in shots taken (186) and has more than twice as many three-pointers (17) as any Laker, but Coach Randy Pfund said he will not tell his rookie point guard to back off or concentrate more on passing. “Nick is an aggressive player, and we need that from him,” Pfund said. Van Exel, who shot 38.6% as a senior at Cincinnati, went into the Maverick game at 40.7%, but has an impressive assist-to-turnover ratio of 6-1.6, good numbers especially since the Lakers want to run whenever possible. . . . Dallas’ Fat Lever, the veteran guard who made only 35 appearances the previous three years, and none in 1992-93, because of arthroscopic surgeries on both knees, has not missed a game or practice all regular season.