The teams that met in the Western Conference finals last season are limping through the middle of the season more disappointed than a teenager without TikTok for a weekend.
But just like the social media time-waster came back, both the Mavericks and the Minnesota Timberwolves expect to push these lagging times behind them, preferably sooner than later.
The Mavericks still have at least another week before they find out about when Luka Donu010diu0107 might return from his strained left calf. Without him, they have struggled to keep pace in the rugged West and the same can be said of the Timberwolves who will visit American Airlines Center Wednesday for an early start (6:30 p.