Anthony Davis has been sidelined for nearly a month with a calf strain, but a return could come as soon as this weekend after he practiced Wednesday with the Dallas Mavericks . It will be a major boost for a Mavericks team that has gone 3-11 in Davis' absence, but whenever the All-Star forward returns, he'll be rejoining a team with far different expectations than the one that he was on when the season started.

In the middle of Davis' absence, the Mavericks fired general manager Nico Harrison, the man who was responsible for orchestrating the trade that sent Luka Dončić to the Los Angeles Lakers in exchange for bringing Davis to Dallas. It ended a tumultuous tenure for Harrison, who was consistently booed at home games with chants of "Fire Nico" raining down on him every chance the

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