The Mavs are now run completely by general manager Nico Harrison, who looks and sounds like a man who does not appreciate the scale of the trade he just made. Mavericks fans are angry in a way that people around here reserve for Jerry Jones and the Dallas Cowboys.

Doncic suffered a strained calf injury in a Christmas Day game versus the Minnesota Timberwolves at American Airlines Center in Dallas. He sustained that injury late in the second quarter of the contest after he made what turned out to be his final basket in a Mavs uniform.