Caron Butler saw a path to the basket and didn’t care that Tim Duncan was in his way. Butler drove right at San Antonio’s big guy and tried jumping by him for a dunk. Duncan got a piece of the ball—but it caromed off the backboard and into the net anyway. It was that kind of night for Butler and the Dallas Mavericks. With Dallas facing elimination, Butler set an aggressive, energetic tone early and kept it up throughout a 103-81 victory over San Antonio on Tuesday night in Game 5 of their first-round series. “That was fun,” Mavs star Dirk Nowitzki said. http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/recap;_ylt=AveI8n_le0Y8rOFZpGiwmY45nYcB?gid=2010042706
