Dereck Lively II's season-ending injury threatens to derail Dallas' future plans when building around Cooper Flagg.
With Dereck Lively II being announced to miss the entirety of this season with season-ending right foot surgery, the Dallas Mavericks are left with many future implications from this. One of them is obviously if they'd still be interested in shopping Anthony Davis and Daniel Gafford at this trade deadline. But the Mavericks must also consider Lively II's viability as a long-term building block of this team, which is not something the Mavericks want to think about for their 21-year-old center.