It won't receive a lot of publicity, but there's an unusual victim of the NBA's 66-game season that is shoehorned into 124 days: the NCAA Final Four.

For the first time since 2004, the NBA will have games on the Monday when the college basketball national championship game is played.

The Mavericks, who meet the LA Clippers, are among the NBA teams that will steal some of the spotlight on April 2 from the NCAA's signature event.