SAN ANTONIO SPURS

San Antonio Spurs

San Antonio Spurs VS. Dallas Mavericks

Recap: San Antonio vs. Dallas

San Antonio, TX (SportsNetwork.com) - The fifth and final Game 7 of a wild first round in the NBA playoffs was anticlimactic, as the San Antonio Spurs jumped on the Dallas Mavericks early and rolled to a blowout 119-96 victory.

San Antonio was put to the test by its in-state rival the past two weeks, but Sunday's elimination bout was completely one-sided in favor of the Western Conference's top seed.

Tony Parker scored 24 of his 32 points in a first half that saw the Spurs shoot a blistering 68.4 percent from the field en route to building a sizeable cushion.

Manu Ginobili finished with 20 points, five assists and six steals while Danny Green added 16 points for San Antonio, which will begin its second-round series at home against the Portland Trail Blazers on Tuesday.

The Mavs were trying to become just the sixth No. 8 seed to knock off a No. 1 seed, but they did not have much going offensively outside of Dirk Nowitzki's 22 points and Devin Harris' 17-point showing off the bench.

Monta Ellis, who averaged 24 points over the previous five games, netted just 12 of 3-of-11 shooting in the ouster.

Nowitzki began the scoring with an 18-foot jumper, but the Spurs scored 18 of the next 23 points and never looked back.

Parker accounted for 14 points in the first frame and Green's late 3-pointer sent the Spurs into the second with a healthy 35-23 lead.

A Ginobili jumper capped a quarter-opening 11-2 spurt that extended the margin to 21 points, and it was a nearly insurmountable 68-46 spread at the break despite Dallas scoring nine of the final 11 points in the half.

Harris poured in 10 points in the first six-plus minutes of the second half to inch the Mavs as close as 14 at 77-63, but the Spurs answered with a 14-2 run that essentially put the game away.

Ginobili ended the third quarter with 3-pointer for a 94-68 differential, and the Spurs were able to rest their veteran stars over the final 12 minutes with Portland looming in the near future.