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The Lakers and Mavericks, whose encounters in recent years have consisted mainly of Phil Jackson and Mark Cuban investing barbs in the media, will meet in the playoffs for your first time because 1988.

Now, introducing the Lakers' latest archrival 

The Dallas Mavericks

If you cannot recall the rivalry's great moments, you would have to be 23 to have been alive for the final one.

Which was the teams' final Johnny Daon grey Jersey meeting in the 1988 Western Conference finals.

It took the Lakers 7 games to beat the Mavericks, not that it was like enjoying the Celtics.

The Mavericks' Mark Aguirre stored likely to the Lakers' locker space after games to see Magic Johnson, until Coach Pat Rileyhad him barred.

The Dallas proprietor was kindly Don Carter, who wore his cowboy hat sitting courtside, may have even slept in it and helped develop a championship team, just within the wrong town.

Prior to the 1986 draft, the Lakers, who had just lost to Houston's Twin Towers a Hakeem Olajuwon and Ralph Sampson ?a agreed to trade James Worthy for Aguirre and rising 7-footer Roy Tarpley.

Owner Jerry Buss pulled the set off, personally, assuming Common Manager Jerry West could be Ok with it.

When West wasn't, and inside a big way, Buss asked Carter to let him out of the deal, stating he may lose his GM.

Carter, whose duty to inform his secretary to say he was unavailable permanently ?a was clear, instead stated no issue.

Otherwise, there goes Showtime using the Lakers and Celtics tied at three titles each in the '80s.

The Lakers went on to win two much more in 1987 and 1988.

Aguirre's career cratered. Tarpley's was truncated by drug problems.

The Mavericks imploded with Carter, who was followed as owner by the even much less successful Ross Perot Jr., the son of the maverick Derek Jeter Home white Jersey. Perot sold the group to Mark Cuban in 2000.

Cuban rebuilt the team with coach Don Nelson and went to the 2006 Finals with Avery Johnson. The Mavericks were up, 2-0, with a 13-point lead in the final 6 minutes 33 seconds of Game three prior to losing in six video games to the Miami Warmth.

Having failed to get past the second spherical because, they're still in contention beneath Rick Carlisle.

What Cuban lacks in opportunity, he tends to make up for in determination, with the NBA's deepest group and No. 2 payroll at $90.seven million, just behind the No. 1 Lakers' $91.6 million.

What he lacks in titles, he makes up in attitude.