This is the fourth of a five-part series chronicling the Dallas Mavericks’ 1980’81 season, which was their first season in the NBA. Today: Brad Davis. Tuesday: Trying to survive in the Dallas Cowboys’ backyard
Brad Davis was on the verge of giving up on basketball when the Dallas Mavericks came calling.
Davis had bounced around for about four years playing for the NBA’s Los Angeles Lakers, Indiana Pacers and Utah Jazz, and also for the Great Falls Sky of the Western Basketball Association. When the Mavs initially contacted the 6-3 point guard in hopes of luring him to play for their 1980-’81 expansion team, Davis was playing in Anchorage, AK, for the Anchorage Northern Knights in the Continental Basketball Association.