A bit of normalcy returned on Friday night at American Airlines Center.
Gone were the one-timers, those overflow media members who crammed into the building for Luka Doncic’s Wednesday return to Dallas. And the Los Angeles Lakers fans, too.
Replacing them was a business-as-usual approach from the Mavericks, who are trying to put together an identity on the fly and couldn’t have asked for a better confidence builder than the Toronto Raptors.
With Anthony Davis rolling up a triple-double and virtually all of the Mavericks enjoying a strong shooting night, they rolled to a 124-102 victory over the Raptors on Fan Appreciation Night at the AAC.