Look, the Mavericks opening night in the NBA restart bubble sucked. We can all agree and there are plenty of places on the site right now where you can read up on exactly how they sucked in the 153-149 loss to the Rockets on Friday night.
So let’s push that to the back of our minds for now and talk about what was absolutely the coolest positive thing from that game — Trey Burke seemingly rising out of a Lazarus pit and almost taking down Houston all by himself.
Burked scored 31 points in 30 points, on 11-of-16 shooting, including 8-of-10 from three.