As the Miami Heat took on the Dallas Mavericks tonight, the team finally looked solid. In particular, Anthony Davis seems to have recovered well from injury, but after helping Dallas take down the Denver Nuggets, something looked off tonight. The usually smooth footwork and soft touch felt interrupted, and for a team counting on him to lead them, misses felt magnified.

After the game, however, things became clear.

“Finger bothering me,” Davis said in the post-game interview . “Really swollen, but trying to play through it. I didn’t make shots tonight, but tried to rebound, and block shots, and give defensive effort.”

Even though Davis downplayed the discomfort, the message is clear. Just a few days earlier, when facing the Nuggets, Davis, on a bad pass from Naji Marshall, jammed his f

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