MINNEAPOLIS – Important messages in October usually come with Halloween skeletons attached or ghosts flying about.
But the Mavericks have a chance to put a scare into the Minnesota Timberwolves and the entire NBA on Tuesday night.
It’s the first rematch with the Wolves since the Mavericks saw them – and beat them in five games – in the Western Conference finals last season. And this meeting comes less than a month after Minnesota acquired Julius Randle from the New York Knicks for Karl-Anthony Towns in a blockbuster deal.
This is what happens when teams feel they are on the cusp of a championship.