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Canada was placed in one of the easiest groups during Saturdays live televised draw in Montreal.CLEVELAND - While the wins keep piling up for the Dallas Mavericks, all the Cavaliers keep adding are injuries.Monta Ellis scored 20 points, Dirk Nowitzki added 15 and the Mavericks won their fifth straight game Sunday, a 109-90 victory over the Cavaliers, whose news on the injury front gets worse by the day.Cleveland again played without LeBron James, who is out with knee and back soreness. Kyrie Irving left in the third quarter with lower back tightness and wont make the trip to Philadelphia for Monday nights game.Im in a lot of pain right now, said Irving, who missed two games last week with a sore left knee. I just have to get through it. It stinks because you have two injuries at one time.Irving, who scored a season-low six points and was 2 of 9 from the field, said the injuries arent related.As his team raised its record to 25-10, Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle recognized the Cavaliers are far from full strength.This is the kind of team weve got to beat, he said. Theyre without the best player in the world and lost one of the best point guards in the league. They were already down bodies when Kyrie went out, but I really did think it was a harder game than the score indicated.James missed his fourth game in a row and fifth of the season. The Cavaliers are 1-4 when the four-time MVP doesnt play and have dropped 5 of 7 overall.Nowitzki has 27,397 career points and is 12 shy of tying Moses Malone for seventh place all-time.Kevin Love scored a season-high 30 points, but the Cavaliers couldnt stay with the Mavericks, who had six players in double figures.Before the game, Cavaliers general manager David Griffin said speculation about coach David Blatts job status was ridiculous and added no change would be made.The Mavericks, who wrap up this three-game trip Monday in Brooklyn, are 10-0 on the road against the Eastern Conference this season and have won 14 straight overall against the East.Dallas went ahead for good late in thee first quarter and built a 57-42 lead two minutes before halftime.dddddddddddd The margin grew to 20 in the third.Chandler Parsons, Tyson Chandler and J.J. Barea scored 14 points apiece for Dallas, which shot 56 per cent and made 12 of 26 3-pointers.Rajon Rondo, who scored a season-high 29 points Friday against Boston, was held to four points and had eight assists in 27 minutes. Dallas is 6-2 since acquiring Rondo from the Celtics.We get out and run, so I love it, Ellis said. Hes a great floor general at both ends of the court. Were doing good, but we can do better. We made the extra pass today, and when we move the basketball like that, we can put teams in a bind.PROPER BALANCECarlisle used nine players between 18 and 29 minutes, and the Mavericks had 30 assists with only 10 turnovers. It went great, Chandler said. Everyone understands what were trying to accomplish out there. Coach is doing a great job running bodies in and out, keeping everyone fresh.NO GUARDINGBlatt was displeased with his teams defence. Certainly not good enough, he said. The other night we played great defensively, tonight we did not. We didnt play the kind of defence we needed to play against any team, certainly not Dallas.TIP INSMavericks: Mark Cuban purchased the franchise 15 years ago Sunday. Under his ownership, Dallas won the 2011 championship and has advanced to the NBA Finals twice. . C Greg Smith (right oblique) left in the second quarter and didnt return.Cavaliers: Griffin said James didnt attend Sundays game and wont make the trip to Philadelphia on advice from the teams medical staff. The Cavaliers host Houston on Wednesday and Griffin hopes James will return during their five-game West Coast trip that begins Friday. ... G Dion Waiters missed all seven shots, including three air balls, in the first half. He finished with eight points, going 4 of 14.UP NEXTMavericks: At Brooklyn on Monday.Cavaliers: At Philadelphia on Monday. ' ' '