No doubt it was only a coincidence.
Surely it was mere happenstance that Mavericks owner Mark Cuban chose Friday night to offer his most glowing praise to date of Harrison Barnes, his $94.4 million summer acquisition.
It was pure accident that former Maverick Chandler Parsons, the player whose $94.4 million offer from Memphis that Cuban chose not to match, also was in American Airlines Center on this night.
The game itself, an unsightly 80-64 Memphis victory that included Dallas scoring a franchise record-tying low 10 second-quarter points and just 41 points through three quarters, is relative in Cuban’s eyes.