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What's with the early season 'amped up' NBA scores? Mark Cuban and Rick Carlisle say get used to it

Even before his team went out Saturday night and surrendered a franchise-record 46 first-quarter points to the Jimmy Butler-less Minnesota Timberwolves, of all teams, Mavericks owner Mark Cuban had a message for all NBA fans.

Get used to it. Not just in Dallas, but throughout the NBA.

Indeed, the first five days of the 2018-19 NBA season already has produced a plethora of scores that remind longtime basketball fans of the old wide-open, 3-point shootin', red-white-and-blue ball American Basketball Association.

"You're going to see all kinds of records set," Cuban said. "Because more shots mean more rebounds; you'll see records on rebounds.