NEW ORLEANS – Daniel Gafford said he felt like earlier in this season he was letting down his running mate at center, Dereck Lively II.
Make no mistake. Gafford, who is creeping up on the one-year anniversary of his arrival to the Mavericks, has let down nobody this season. But he couldn’t help the way he felt.
“At the start of the season, I felt like I wasn’t picking him up,” Gafford said after the Mavericks’ 137-136 win over the New Orleans Pelicans on Wednesday. “We’re a team and I’m supposed to have his back.