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Watch: Mavs, Pacers commit basketball brutality

Kevin Jairaj / USA TODAY Sports

The first game of a basketball season is typically easy to identify, even if it's preceded by an unnecessarily long preseason tuneup.

The Indiana Pacers and Dallas Mavericks clearly haven't shaken off the cobwebs just yet. In the first quarter of their season opener Wednesday night, they took turns chucking the ball away for 20 consecutive seconds of nausea-inducing basketball.

Give it some time.

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