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Brad Townsend

Kyrie Irving? Surely the Mavericks aren’t that desperate, nor should they be

Turns out the culprit wasn’t the North Texas heat. Or those extra onions in the potato salad. Or the habanero barbecue sauce.

Our acid reflux flare-ups this holiday weekend weren’t induced by intolerable climate or cuisine, but, rather, persistent reporting of “Kyrie Irving” and “Mavericks” in the same sentence.

This diagnosis was confirmed by Sunday’s fallout from the Mavericks’ latest offseason setback, when their long-rumored and widely presumed free agent target, Goran Dragic, agreed to a one-year contract with Chicago.

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