The Phoenix Suns are coming off a tough loss Friday night in San Antonio, in which they built a 21-point first quarter lead, but fell behind in the third period and lost to the Spurs 112-104.

No time to rest for the Suns as they travel upstate in Texas to face the Dallas Mavericks Saturday night. Dallas is just a half-game ahead of Phoenix entering the contest, and to say the game is critical for both teams would be an understatement.

Early Saturday, the two teams engaged in some mild pregame trash talk on their Twitter accounts. It wasn’t as heated as the Suns-Trail Blazers social media banter earlier in the season, but both Phoenix and Dallas came off sounding pretty confident entering the must-win game.

The Mavericks kicked it off with the following tweet.

Psst @Suns, Nice day today. Want to hoop later? #DALvsPHX — Dallas Mavericks (@dallasmavs) April 12, 2014

And the Suns initially had a friendly reply.

@dallasmavs We're in. Does 7:30 p.m. your time work? We just happen to be in town and are looking for some good competition. #SunsAtMavs — Phoenix Suns (@Suns) April 12, 2014

But the Mavericks didn’t stop there.

.@Suns Sounds good, meet you at our house. No need to bring anything we got you covered! #DALvsPHX — Dallas Mavericks (@dallasmavs) April 12, 2014

And that’s when the Suns got a little cocky, and the conversation was kicked up a notch from then on.

.@Suns sounds a little creepy but we'll go ahead and have something waiting for you as well. #DALvsPHX #goodguys — Dallas Mavericks (@dallasmavs) April 12, 2014

.@Suns if you insist, sounds like it's going to be a heck of a night at @insideaacenter! #goodguysVSotherguys #DALvsPHX — Dallas Mavericks (@dallasmavs) April 12, 2014

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