Four days after the big trade, Monday at last produced the big press conference, which in reality was the Big Tease.
Big as in 7-foot-3 Kristaps Porzingis, not only in the flesh, but in Mavericks practice gear, shooting free throws inside American Airlines Center and chumming with his hero, Dirk Nowitzki, and fellow phenom Luka Doncic.
Tease as in, in reality, Porzingis and Nowitzki likely will never play together as Mavericks teammates and the soonest Doncic-Porzingis regular-season game pairing won't happen until October.
Still, seeing and hearing Porzingis and imagining a long Doncic-Porzingis Mavericks alliance was beyond appetite-whetting for North Texas, as evidenced by Monday's packed press conference.