The Dallas Mavericks swung perhaps the biggest trade of the NBA season prior to today’s contest against the Detroit Pistons. Dallas sent out Dennis Smith Jr and expiring deals to the New York Knicks for Kirstaps Porzingis and some big long-term contracts.
While the trade was finalized it’ll still be days before the players suit up for their new respective teams, and that meant, combined with a Luka Doncic ankle injury, the Mavs were short handed. Really short handed. And they still almost beat this sad-sack Pistons team.