What’s really weighing on the Mavericks

The season of giving hasn’t exactly been kind to the Dallas Mavericks of late. Coming in to a Tuesday night match against a 16-7 Brooklyn Nets squad, the Mavericks were sporting a 1-3 record in the month of December. A nationally televised game, the Mavericks-Nets match was one to watch, if nothing else it would give a national audience a glimpse into the current woes weighing on the suddenly struggling Mavericks. Instead, a whole other type of weight took center stage instead.

Even as the Mavericks took an early lead and looked a lot more efficient, the national audience, via the TNT broadcast, were treated to analyst Reggie Miller’s thoughts about the Mavericks’ supermax superstar, Luka…