Michael Finley and Dirk Nowitzki are expected back in the Dallas Mavericks line-up for tonight?s game versus the Los Angeles Lakers.  Finley is recovering from a left calf injury and Nowitzki is nursing a sore left knee.

"We're at the point now where it's not about any one game or two games," owner Mark Cuban said Wednesday. "You want to do as well as you can in the standings. But as I've said from Day One, I just want to be healthy and playing well.

"We're not going to rush somebody back. If it's the last game and it's tied and we have a choice between [being seeded] four or five or six ? unless it was to make the playoffs ? being healthy going into the playoffs takes a premium over everything."

Dallas will still be short Erick Dampier and Jerry Stackhouse.