With the return of basketball on the horizon, and the 2019-20 season stretching in to what feels like its 18th year, it’s worthwhile to look back at the games that have led us to where we are now. That is, as a 7th seed gearing up for a postseason run for the first time since 2015.
Given the time between games and always-swelling tide of extenuating circumstances refusing to ever ebb, you can be forgiven for losing track of some of the moments that put the team on a path to Orlando. It hasn’t been a perfect season (team who lost to the Knicks twice says what), but there has been a ton of great Mavericks basketball this season, worthy of a quick auditing before we’re neck-deep in post-games takes and the exuberance of first-time playoff berths for Luka and Porzingis.