Schedule and 2010-11 Results
Regular Season Records: Dallas 57-25, Portland 48-34
Game 1 on Saturday, 16 April: Portland loses at Dallas, 89-pts-81
Game 2 on Tuesday, 19 April: Portland loses at Dallas, 101-pts-89
Game 3 on Thursday, 21 April: Dallas loses at Portland, 97-pts-92
Game 4 on Saturday, 23 April: Dallas loses at Portland, 84-pts-82
Game 5 on Monday, 25 April: Portland loses at Dallas, 93-pts-82
Game 6 on Thursday, 28 April: Dallas wins at Portland, 103-pts-96

SERIES NOTES:

Post-series assessment: The Dallas Mavericks defeated the Portland Trailblazers 4-games-2 in MLB/NBA/NHL best-of-7 playoff series 1143, thereby improving their best-of-7 NBA playoff series record to 9-13 overall and 5-4 in the NBA Preliminary round. With the series 1143 loss, the best-of-7 NBA playoff series record for the Portland Trailblazers falls to 10-12 overall (with an active five-series losing streak) and 0-4 in the Preliminary round. The win order for the victorious Dallas Mavericks in series 1143 was WWLLWW: Series 1143 thus becomes the fourth NBA Preliminary-round series, the 27th NBA series (all rounds), and the 67th MLB/NBA/NHL series (all rounds) to follow this win order to completion. The last time that Dallas and Portland met in a best-of-7 NBA playoff series (in series 894, in the 2003 NBA Preliminary round), Dallas won Games 1-3 and 7 to win the series; prior to this Spring 2011 playoff season, in which the NHL Vancouver Canucks won Games 1-3 and 7 of series 1126 to defeat the Chicago Blackhawks in their 2011 NHL Preliminary-round series, no other team had won Games 1-3 and 7 of an MLB/NBA/NHL best-of-7 playoff series since the aforementioned series 894. The Dallas Mavericks trailed the Trailblazers in Portland by eight points after one quarter of series 1143 Game 6: In the history of best-of-7 NBA playoff games from 1947 through Wednesday 27 April 2011, road teams down eight points after one quarter had a game record of only 11-67 (.141).

Pre-series assessment: In the 2010-11 regular season, Dallas finished nine games ahead of Portland. From 1947 through the 2010 NBA Finals, when NBA teams led their best-of-7 playoff series opponents by nine regular-season games, they have posted a 17-2 (.895) best-of-7 series record in those series against those opponents. MLB/NBA/NHL best-of-7 playoff series 1143 is the 22nd best-of-7 playoff series for Portland, and the 22nd for Dallas. In best-of-7 playoff series, Portland has a 10-11 series record (with an active four-series losing streak), a 0-3 Prelim-round series record, and a 9-12 Game 1 record, while Dallas has an 8-13 series record, a 4-4 Prelim-round record, and a 6-15 Game 1 record. Series 1143 is the second best-of-7 meeting between Portland and Dallas; Dallas won the only prior best-of-7 NBA playoff series meeting between the two teams, which was series 894 in the 2003 NBA Preliminary round (a spectacular series in which Dallas led 3-games-nil after three games, but had to eke out a narrow Game 7 victory to win the series after Portland rallied to tie it 3-games-all).