DALLAS — In Hollywood, they would call this flipping the script. In Texas, we call it a plain ol’ tail-whippin’.
To be sure, Mavericks 128, Lakers 110 on Tuesday in American Airlines Center wasn’t what TNT bean counters had in mind when they slated this for national viewing. Unless maybe they were hoping to lure horror-flick genre fans to basketball.
With Los Angeles stars LeBron James and Anthony Davis out with injuries, the result itself wasn’t surprising, but the beating’s thoroughness before a meaningless garbage-time mini-rally had to be a shock to the proud Lakers’ system.
