Dallas Mavs Donuts, freshly baked daily for your MFFL enjoyment as we get ready for a roadie …
DONUT 1: READY FOR ROADIE? The Mavs (40-26) are at Houston (17-49) tonight as they sit in the No. 5 slot in the West playoff race. (Game preview here.) Oh, and DallasBasketball.com will be in Houston for full coverage.
Their recent five-game win streak was just snapped, but coach Jason Kidd is ready to begin another streak – kinda.
“We had a great homestand,” said Kidd of his team’s 3-1 run at American Airlines Center. “Sometimes you’re going to lose a game and tonight was the night. … Now we go out on the road for five. … It’s over.”
“It’s over meaning that loss to the Knicks is over.
But …
DONUT 2: THE GOAL Kidd also said, “Our goal is to come back above 500.”
Is it just me … or is that a rather modest “goal”?
DONUT 3: TRAIN WRECK Our old pal Nerlens Noel may be on the verge of a shutdown. He’s got a problem with plantar fasciitis and in the Knicks’ recent win over Dallas didn’t even bother sitting on the bench. In New York, they’re calling it “a train wreck of a season, a crash.”
DONUT 4: ‘THIS IS MY GYM!’ Speaking of the Knicks, hey, Julius Randle – it ain’t braggin’ if it’s true. Sorry, Mavs.
DONUT 5: SAD How much odd bitterness oozes out on social media?
So much that when Steph Curry reached out for a nice gesture to a girl sitting court-side … people on Twitter attacked the girl, suggesting she deserves no such sympathy because somebody is obviously well-off-enough financially to get her good seats.
Sad.
DONUT 6: ‘WESTBRICK’ The problem with the hatefulness driving the “Russell Westbrick” nickname for the struggling Lakers star Westbrook isn’t fans hooting it at him; fans, unfortunately, are not required to bring dignity to the arena along with their ticket.
No, the problem is that “Westbrick” is, as near as I can tell, the product of the soiled mind of Skip Bayless.
And some tiny bit of dignity…