SACRAMENTO – As he sat down behind a microphone for his pregame chat with media members, Jason Kidd started as he always does by ticking off the medical report.
It was a long sound byte.
“Bear with me here,” he said. “Luka, Exum, Lively, Irving, Thompson, Marshall are all out.”
That’s six players, 33 percent of the total roster and 80 percent of the usual starting lineup.
The various maladies left the Mavericks with another starting lineup that they’d never used before this season. It was the 15th different lineup that has taken the floor through 33 games.