Welcome to the holiday edition of the Mavericks’ Mailbag.
In the interest of public service and as an early Christmas gift, we will start this mailbag with a cautionary tale.
Some of you may have noticed that I wrote a story last week from Indianapolis the day before the Mavericks were to play Rick Carlisle’s Pacers.
To catch up with the former Mavericks’ coach of 13 seasons, I flew to Indy a couple days early.
I spent part of Wednesday before the Pacers played New York in Carlisle’s office. We shook hands, exchanged man-hugs, etc.