MIAMI — When the 2022-23 schedule came out last summer, the Mavericks organization mentally circled this late-season stop.
It wasn’t because Saturday night’s game against the Heat in Miami-Dade Arena offered a reprieve of any sort. Or because this would be a matchup of reigning conference finalists — Dallas from the West, longtime nemesis Miami from the East.
Mostly it was about getting a rare two-day, pre-playoffs break in a nice city and a posh hotel overlooking Biscayne Bay and an opportunity for significant others to meet players and staff here.
