CLEVELAND - Remember when they used to call the NBA team in this city the Cadavers?
Well, who's playing dead now?
The Mavericks, looking more and more like road kill in the first month of the season, fell behind by 20 points in the first quarter, then basically never had a pulse after that and fell to their eighth consecutive loss, 128-90 Friday night against the defending NBA champion Cavaliers. They trailed by as much as 45 points.
Yes, the gap between the 2016 title winners and the team with the worst record in the NBA really is that humongous right now.