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DALLAS -- Chris Paul had to be reminded that the Los Angeles Clippers are up to an NBA-leading 14 wins.They wont get much easier than this one over the injury-plagued Dallas Mavericks.Paul scored 18 points, DeAndre Jordan had 16 points and eight rebounds and the Clippers cruised past the Mavericks 124-104 on Wednesday night in a matchup of the teams with the best and worst records in the NBA.I honestly didnt know we had 14 wins, said Paul, who added four assists and four steals. I know we have two losses. But for us, when youve been in this league for a while, its not necessarily about the wins. Its about how youre playing and about the spirit.Dirk Nowitzki scored 10 points on 3-of-10 shooting in 20 minutes in his return for Dallas after the 13-time All-Star missed eight games with a strained left Achilles tendon.Austin Rivers added 22 points -- half of them in a meaningless fourth quarter -- for the Clippers. They had a 30-6 run in the second and third quarters on the way to their fourth straight win and 11th in 12 games.Harrison Barnes had 22 to lead the Mavericks (2-12). They lost their seventh straight game to match their longest skid since February 1999, during Nowitzkis rookie season.Dallas, missing its top three point guards and facing a trip to defending champion Cleveland, is off to its worst start since going 1-23 in 1993-94. The Mavericks started the week with a valiant effort in a loss at San Antonio.This is obviously as tough a week as you can get in the NBA, Nowitzki said. So hopefully well fight through this and grind out a win here and there. And when the schedule turns in our favor hopefully get more healthy and run off some wins. Thats the only way to do it.Blake Griffin had 12 points, seven assists and six rebounds, all in the first three quarters along with the rest of the starters. The Clippers led by 31 in the third.Rivers scored 11 points in the first half, including 3-pointers just four seconds apart after he hit one, stole the inbound pass and made another. He was 6 of 7 from long range.TIP-INSClippers: LA shot 61 percent in the first half and made 9 of 14 from 3-point range. ... Marreese Speights scored 16 and Jamal Crawford added 15 as the Clippers had a 65-43 advantage in bench scoring. ... Speights had his first double-double with a season-high 12 rebounds. The 16 points matched his season high. ... JJ Redick had 10 points.Mavericks: PG Deron Williams sat for the eighth time in nine games with a left calf strain. He said hes hopeful to play next week. ... C Andrew Bogut was called for a flagrant foul on a hip-check of Paul as the Clippers point guard drove to the basket. Paul jumped up and went at Bogut, and the pair kept jawing as the referees prepared to review the play. ... Bogut had 12 rebounds and six assists after missing a game with a sore right calf.COWBOY UPThe Clippers will stay in the Dallas area to attend the Washington Redskins-Dallas Cowboys game on Thanksgiving before continuing a six-game trip Friday at Detroit. Paul is a well-documented fan of the Cowboys, who have the NFLs best record at 9-1. He wore the jersey of rookie running back Ezekiel Elliott, the NFLs rushing leader, on the flight from Los Angeles. Paul has attended Cowboys training camp in the LA area.While acknowledging that his team has a bevy of Dallas fans, Clippers coach and Chicago Bears fan Doc Rivers had a parting shot for reporters. Im not going to call you any of you guys bandwagon, OK, but this is the first time you guys have mentioned the Cowboys in like four years, Rivers said.LOSING THE LUSTERThe boos were still there for Jordan, who spurned the Mavericks in free agency in the summer of 2015 after agreeing to join them. 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Andy Murray breezed through the first test of his Olympic title defence against Viktor Troicki.The London 2012 gold medalist played his first match since defeating Milos Raonic to win a second Wimbledon title a month ago, but there were no signs of rust as he eased to a 6-3 6-2 victory.The win was Murrays 13th in a row and seventh at the Olympics, and he will look to extend the run when he faces Argentinas Juan Monaco in the second round.Murray, who was due back on court later for his first doubles match with brother Jamie, was given Saturday off after carrying Great Britains flag in the opening ceremony on Friday.The heat of the first days play had been replaced by cool, blustery conditions, with the wind so strong that play on some outside courts was delayed for more than two hours for safety reasons.The crowds for the tennis have been disappointing so far, but Murray received an enthusiastic reception from the quarter-full stadium when he walked out.At 35 in the world, Troicki is one of the highest-ranked unseeded players but also a man Murray had beaten in all seven of their previous meetings.They might have faced each other three weeks ago in the Davis Cup, but both players sat out the quarterfinal, although Murray traveled to Belgrade as a supporter.He made a nervy start, dropping serve in the opening game, but broke straight back and soon began to take control.The huge dimensions of the court aided Murrays supremee retrieval skills, and although he was the aggressor, Troicki struggled to come up with winners.ddddddddddddome trademark Murray defence helped him break for a 4-2 lead in the opening set, and two dipping forehand passes gave the crowd something to get excited about as he broke again for 2-1 in the second.There were certainly some positive signs for Murray, who was striking the ball crisply despite the conditions and making few errors.A run of five games in a row took him to the brink of victory, and he clinched the win on his first match point after 1 hour, 23 minutes.The Scots victory made it three British singles players through to the second round after wins for Kyle Edmund and Heather Watson on Saturday, while Johanna Konta was due to play her opener later on Sunday.Murrays fellow defending singles champion,?Serena Williams, was given a battle by Australias Daria Gavrilova, but she came through 6-4 6-2.Watson was much more impressive in her second win of the day, as she and Konta eased to a 6-2 6-1 victory over Serbian pair Jelena Jankovic and Aleksandra Krunic in the first round of the womens doubles.Both Konta and Watson play a reasonable amount of doubles, but not normally with each other. 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