Thank Holy Dirk that Trey Burke was suddenly available to help the Dallas Mavericks through their first playoff appearance in four years — a sentence never thought possible in the history of basketball and words.
The undersized scoring guard officially joined the Mavericks on July 1 (after being released by the Phildelphia 76ers in February), a substitution signing for the absence of Willie Cauley-Stein in the bubble. This was Burke’s second short stint with the Dallas Mavericks, after coming over from the New York Knicks in the Kristaps Porzingis trade last season.