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Up next for Clippers: Thursday vs. Dallas

Clippers center DeAndre Jordan is introduced before a preseason game at Staples Center.

Clippers center DeAndre Jordan is introduced before a preseason game at Staples Center.

(Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)
Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
By Ben Bolch
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When: 7:30 p.m. Thursday.

Where: Staples Center.

On the air: TV: TNT; Radio: 980, 1330.

Records: Mavericks 0-0, Clippers 0-0.

Record vs. Mavericks (2014-15): 2-1.

Update

Things don’t figure to be nearly as awkward for DeAndre Jordan playing the Mavericks at home as they do when the Clippers travel to Dallas on Nov. 11, but there could still be some interesting exchanges involving the player who spurned the Mavericks this summer in free agency after a five-day commitment.

Clippers Coach Doc Rivers joked that he would tussle with Mark Cuban in a cage match after the Mavericks owner disparaged Rivers and refused to accept Jordan’s Twitter apology. Jordan declined to discuss the game against Dallas. “We play Sacramento [Wednesday],” he said. “That’s all I’m concerned about.”

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Ben Bolch has been a Los Angeles Times staff writer since 1999. He is serving his second stint as the UCLA beat writer, which seems fitting since he has covered almost every sports beat except hockey and horse racing. Bolch is also the author of the recently released book “100 Things UCLA Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die.” He previously covered UCLA basketball from 2010-11 before going on to cover the NBA and the Clippers for five years. He happily traded in gobs of hotel points and airline miles to return to cover UCLA basketball and football in the summer of 2016. Bolch was once selected by NBA TV’s “The Starters” as the “Worst of the Week” after questioning their celebrity journalism-style questions at an NBA All-Star game and considers it one of his finer moments.

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