With the news that the Mavericks are releasing J.J. Barea, what is your favorite Barea-related memory?
Ben: Despite the big playoff moments, I still remember Barea breaking into the league best. 2006 was pre-Twitter, team blogs weren’t wildly popular yet, and D-League (that’s right, Gatorade wasn’t sponsoring it yet) coverage was nonexistent. Yet we kept hearing rumors of this 6’ nothing Puerto Rican guard killing it for the Fort Worth Flyers and how he’d be on the Mavericks soon enough. And when he finally took the court at the AAC, he played like he belonged there.