When the Dallas Mavericks pulled off a monumental—and somewhat controversial—trade for Kyrie Irving in February 2023, they knew it wouldn’t save their season. “There’s not a place in history that shows that that actually works in the middle of the season,” Mavs general manager Nico Harrison told The Ringer earlier this year. And it didn’t; Dallas went 10-18 the rest of the way as Irving and Luka Doncic worked through the early, stilted days of their partnership and the Mavs, who had an inside track on the playoffs, slipped out of the postseason mix entirely.
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