To put it delicately, getting waived wasn’t the biggest pain in the rear for Salah Mejri when the Mavericks made the trade of Harrison Barnes to Sacramento.
To reset the situation, the Mavericks completed the trade on Jan. 6, although it wasn’t made official until the following day. Mejri spent the first half of the Jan. 6 game against Charlotte on the bench for that game, then was absent in the second half.
It was fair to assume that he had been informed something was up.
That wasn’t the case, he said.
“To be honest, everybody thought I left that game because I got waived,” he said.