Seven Mavericks out with injury. No starter taller than 6-8, three of them with a combined six games started as Mavericks. One of them, Kessler Edwards, on a two-way contract. Still, the Mighty Mite Mavericks galvanized to pull out a 111-107 victory over Golden State Wednesday night in American Airlines Center behind 42 points from Kyrie Irving,

Despite missing Anthony Davis, Daniel Gafford, PJ Washington and Dereck Lively, the Warriors didn't have an answer for Kyrie Irving. Irving caught fire against the Warriors, scoring a game-high 42 points on 15-of-25 shooting from the floor with seven made 3-pointers to go along with seven rebounds in 40 minutes.

Jimmy Butler didn’t solve all the Warriors’ problems, after all. After winning the first two games of the Butler era, the Warriors dropped one of their worst losses of the season. In Dallas, in front of a crowd still reeling from the Luka Doncic trade aftershocks,