Some people saw this coming, believe it or not.
And not just inside the Mavericks’ locker room.
When he came through Dallas with the Indiana Pacers in late January, former Mavericks’ coach Rick Carlisle said it was clear to him that the Mavericks had the right stuff going for them in Jason Kidd’s first year as the franchise’s head coach.
“They’re a major threat in the West,” Carlisle said of the Mavericks before the Pacers played them at American Airlines Center.
Those seven words now ring truer than ever.
And it’s got a little karma to go with those words, Carlisle said.