Dennis Smith Jr. didn't show up.
Ahead of a visit with the Pacers in Indiana on Saturday, the Mavericks got together for practice Friday morning. As SportsDay's Brad Townsend wrote Thursday, the smartest thing Smith could have done is show up to work and compete as though the rest of his NBA career depended on it.
This is the only way Smith and the Mavericks could begin to extricate themselves from the heaping mess that both sides have allowed to accumulate around them.
Except he wasn't there, ESPN reported.
Dennis Smith Jr.