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SALT LAKE CITY — The All-Star break didn’t sap the Mavericks’ offensive roll.

DALLAS — Watching Shaquille O'Neal navigate among the little people, which is basically the world, it must have been similar to when Elvis Presley was alive, if the King was 7-foot-2, 350 pounds.

This ranking is not in dispute. It's a formality, a wave of the hand, a tip of the cap, an admittance of the obvious. The sky is blue. The earth is round. Michael Jordan, No. 1 on The Athletic's NBA 75. The best player in the 75-year history of the…

NEW ORLEANS — Gas up the private plane and prep the Cleveland hotel suite.

MIAMI — The Miami Heat was presented with another opportunity to overcome adversity, but it couldn’t come through this time.

DALLAS — Feigning ignorance before tipoff to hide a team’s strategic cards can be as much a function of the job for NBA coaches as drawing up plays during timeouts. When he says he can’t remember his starting lineup, or the status of a player’s health, Los Angeles Clippers coach…

50 points for the Slovenian star? Ho-hum.

DALLAS — The first game of the post-Kristaps Porzingis era probably wasn’t what we should expect from the Dallas Mavericks in the hereafter without the 7-foot-3 Latvian.

The one move the Mavericks made Wednesday afternoon, the last full day before the NBA’s trade deadline at 2 p.m. Thursday, may end up being their most notable.