DALLAS — The Dallas Mavericks fell to 0-2 to begin the 2025-26 season with a 117-107 loss to the Washington Wizards on Friday night. Dallas entered the game with high expectations, as Washington is expected to struggle this year. However, the Mavericks' defense failed to find a rhythm while the offense turned the ball over 21 times. D'Angelo Russell seems like an obvious candidate to earn more minutes as the Mavs struggle with taking care of the ball, yet he only received 8:30 of playing time on Friday night.

“I think the group that got us back in the game was the group we were gonna go with,” Kidd said after not playing Russell in the second half. “He wasn’t part of that.”

The Mavs signed Russell during the offseason. Russell was seemingly going to help replace Kyrie Irving at poi

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