By deliberately avoiding the playoffs, the Dallas Mavericks intentionally “took a step back” to “take a step forward,” and a hard conversation needs to be had if they can do that with Kyrie Irving.
Amid the divine comedy that is the 2022-2023 Dallas Mavericks season, two players are skating when they need to be in a pit of starving tigers. The Mavericks missing the playoffs is not just an indictment on Mark Cuban, Jason Kidd and the rest of the roster but also Luka Doncic and Irving.
“We are not going to be in this position again,” Mavericks GM Nico Harrison said Tuesday. “Everybody needs to be evaluated, myself included.”
