DALLAS — The Dallas Mavericks open the season on a haunted reunion tour: back-to-back road games against Tyson Chandler’s Phoenix Suns and DeAndre Jordan’s Los Angeles Clippers.
Jordan is the guy the Mavs hoped to build their franchise around for the next five seasons. Chandler is the guy Dallas should have built its franchise around for the last five.
Three years after they broke apart a championship team and let Chandler walk in free agency to the New York Knicks, Dallas re-acquired Chandler on the last season of a four-year deal, the same four-year deal it refused to offer him back in 2011. When it announced his return to a packed house at the American Airlines Center before the start of the 2014 season, Mark Cuban went as far as to say that he had learned his lesson.
“Let’s just say I learned from my mistakes,” Cuban told the crowd when asked about whether he would try to keep Chandler in Dallas the second time around.
“I thought even after my exit meeting [following their first-round loss to the Houston Rockets last season] that ...
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