After the sky was falling on the 0-2 Houston Rockets, they have rattled off three straight wins (mostly in blowout fashion though Toronto hung around) and sport the league’s best point differential. They welcome a Dallas Mavericks team to Toyota Center tonight.

A rocky start for the Dallas Mavericks shouldn’t surprise anyone. A team that was beat up and dejected to finish last season, recovering from injury, trying to reconnect the remaining pieces, adding a number one pick into the fold, all while missing your star guard with no reasonable back up? Yes, I’m shocked they’ve had trouble scoring.

Cooper Flagg’s Mavericks clash with Cade Cunningham and the Pistons for a high-altitude bout in Mexico City on Saturday night, streaming only on Peacock.

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The Mavericks brought in erratic former All-Star guard D'Angelo Russell to replace him, inking the 6-foot-4 Ohio State product to a two-year, $13 million deal. More news: Warriors Blockbuster 3-Team Trade Idea Sends Jonathan Kuminga to Bulls

Aguirre’s jersey retirement will take place in a halftime ceremony of the Mavericks’ Jan. 29 game against the Charlotte Hornets. Aguirre, the franchise’s third all-time leading scorer who helped Dallas reach the Western Conference finals in 1988, was visibly emotional when Mavericks governor Patrick Dumont gave him the news last week.

The Dallas Mavericks ' majority owners filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the Dallas Stars, accusing the NHL team of blocking long-planned upgrades to the American Airlines Center and breaching their lease agreements. The legal action signals a deepening rift between the two franchises that share the downtown arena.

Dallas Mavericks head coach Jason Kidd recently hinted that a Kyrie Irving return could happen sooner than expected.