MINNEAPOLIS – He may be an NBA rookie on paper. But the last thing Dereck Lively II’s teammates want him to do is think, act
“I’m a rookie,” said Lively, who is fresh out of college and in his first season with the Dallas Mavericks. “I’m not going to be perfect.
“But my teammates say go out there and be a vet, go out there and make vet plays, go out there and think like a vet and play like a vet, and that’s what I’ve been trying to do.