The Dallas Mavericks ' 2025-26 season is crashing before it even gets a chance to get off the ground. On Monday night, the Mavericks let another golden opportunity to win slip away from their fingertips, losing to the Milwaukee Bucks , 116-114, to fall to 3-8 on the season. Considering how unforgiving the West is and considering their injury woes, this might be a death sentence already for their playoff hopes.

If anything, this could be a year where it's worthwhile for the Mavericks to tank and perhaps add another blue-chip prospect alongside Flagg. After all, they own their first-round pick this year; this will be the final time they will do so until 2031, as they are out their first-rounders from 2027 to 2030 after the win-now trades they pulled off in recent years to supplement the

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