DALLAS — By all indications, Friday was going to be the night on which a lot of what has been wrong in Mavs Land would begin to be right again.
Kyrie Irving was back. Twenty-three-win Charlotte was in town. If not a cure-all, surely this night in American Airlines Center would bring symptom relief, right?
Wrong. The Hornets pummeled the listless Mavericks so badly that when Dallas fell behind by 21 points in the third quarter, fans rained boos on the home team. That disapproval ignited a furious rally, but one that fell short in another playoff-race-crippling defeat, 117-109.
