I hadn’t thought much about him recently, until a recent SB Nation tweet asked who was our favorite left-handed players. I stared at the tweet for maybe 30 seconds before Van Exel flashed through my head.
To me, it feels like Van Exel was wearing a Mavericks uniform just a couple of years ago — in reality, it’s been 14 years. Holy crap. Fourteen years. I figured the doldrums of August would be a good time to revisit a player that a decent amount of Mavs fans never got to watch. I’m pretty sure our former boss Tim Cato wasn’t even born in 2003.