The Dallas Mavericks were down Dereck Lively II, Daniel Gafford, and Anthony Davis in this game, going against Julius Randle, Naz Reid, and Rudy Gobert. Moussa Cisse and Dwight Powell saw the bulk of the center minutes, and while Cisse has potential, he's just not ready to contend with those bigs yet.

The Dallas Mavericks entered their game against the Minnesota Timberwolves without Daniel Gafford, Anthony Davis and Dereck Lively II. That meant undrafted free agent Moussa Cissé drew the start

The Dallas Mavericks will rest Daniel Gafford and Dereck Lively II for Monday’s game against the Minnesota Timberwolves. The Mavericks’ top two centers were ruled out for Dallas’ second game in as many days because of injury management for their respective ailments.

Dallas visits the Minnesota Timberwolves after the Mavericks took down the Portland Trail Blazers 138-133 in overtime

Timberwolves head coach Chris Finch took a massive shot at Los Angeles Lakers head coach JJ Redick in his latest podcast appearance.

The Dallas Mavericks (4–10) head to Target Center on Monday night to take on the Minnesota Timberwolves (8–5), who have won six of their last eight games and boast one of the most balanced rosters in the Western Conference.

Anthony Edwards had a pretty simple explanation for what happened in the fourth quarter of the Timberwolves' loss to the Nuggets on Saturday night at Target Center. "They scored the ball, we didn't," Edwards said. "They just made shots and we didn't."