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The Surreal Experience of Watching the Dallas Mavericks Without Fans
Things are different inside the American Airlines Center, but the Mavs are back. You ll just have to watch on your TV.
By
Doyle Rader
Published in
FrontBurner
December 21, 2020
1:44 pm
It has been nine months since Mark Cuban checked his phone and we watched his jaw go slack, learning in front of the world that the NBA season would be stopped immediately. On Thursday, basketball returned to the American Airlines Center, a preseason game between the Mavericks and the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Music from Migos, Gucci Mane, and Drake soundtracked pregame shooting routines. Members of the media buried themselves in the glow of laptops. It appeared all very routine except it wasn’t. For all the attempts to re-create a familiar game night atmosphere, the NBA’s new normal is a foreign experience. The arena is empty and there is no escaping that.