It's no secret that injuries are already playing a huge part in the Dallas Mavericks' season before training camp has even begun. Anthony Davis, while now healthy for five-on-five action, had an offseason eye surgery that sidelined him for much of the summer, in addition to Dereck Lively II receiving foot surgery to clean up bone spurs this summer.
Just last season, the Mavericks were facing the franchise's worst injury crisis, and it didn't help when Davis got hurt in his debut game, as it may have been caused by too much of a workload on Jason Kidd's behalf when he wasn't fully recovered from an injury that he suffered while on the Los Angeles Lakers.