This is the fifth of a five-part series chronicling the Dallas Mavericks’ 1980-’81 season, which was their first season in the NBA. Today: Surviving in the Dallas Cowboys’ backyard.
The year was 1980, and the Dallas Mavericks were the newly-minted pro sports team on the North Texas scene.
Some six years after the American Basketball Association’s Dallas Chaparrals pulled up stakes and moved to San Antonio and changed their name to the Spurs, the Mavericks promptly rolled into Dallas and tried their hand at surviving deep in the heart of Dallas Cowboys country.