Chris Paul will play tonight despite elbow injury

Despite the fact that he has a bruised right elbow, Chris Paul plans to play in tonight's showdown against the Dallas Mavericks.  Currently the Clippers sit 4th in the west and are only 1.5 games ahead of Dallas who is the fifth seed.  The two teams have split the season series 1-1 and tonight will be their finals meeting of the regular season.

"These are big games as far as the seedings go," said Paul, "You never know what's going to happen if you finish with the same record.....As you can see, the Western Conference, as usual, is bunched up right there.... . So, right now every win is valuable and we have more road games than at home."