Could Anthony Davis make a comeback this season?

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The Dallas Mavericks sent Anthony Davis to the Texas Legends to ramp up his recovery from a strained left shoulder. Though there were talks of shutting him down for the season, despite what fans want Davis remains determined to return. Could AD help the Mavs make a playoff run, or is the organization rushing his recovery? Shan also described the torture of watching former Mavs players like Quentin Grimes playing great basketball since leaving the team.

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00:00Dallas Mavericks are sending Anthony Davis to the Chop Dome.

00:21Anthony Davis is heading on over to the Texas Legends to allow him to practice with them

00:26and participate in 5-on-5 scrimmages as he ramps up his return from the strained left

00:33shoulder.

00:34Tim McMahon said, look, there were discussions about shutting him down for the year, but

00:38he has been steadfast in his determination to come back.

00:43No!

00:44No, no, no, no, why, why, why?

00:47Now why have him go and practice and run 5-on-5 with the Legends versus the Mavericks?

00:52I don't know how much practice time the Mavericks are doing right now.

00:55Like, first of all, I don't know what the NBA CBA is like during the season, and if

01:00you have this...

01:01I guess the Mavericks can't...

01:02They can't have 5-on-5.

01:03They can't have 5-on-5 also.

01:04All right, let's get these 4-on-4s in.

01:07You can use a 3-on-3 half-court, you can use a half-court 3-on-3.

01:12Well Bobby?

01:13I said, yeah, no room for a center if it's 4-on-4, you gotta eliminate the 5, but no,

01:17this is the Anthony Davis work ethic.

01:19This is why Nico Harrison wanted him.

01:21This is a guy who doesn't matter what's going on, I'm still gonna fight my way back, I'm

01:26still gonna be there.

01:27This is like the Nico Harrison clip I finally found and sent y'all over the weekend of him

01:31playing trash basketball at Montana State, where they're talking about, he has pins in

01:35his ankle and he can't even jump today, but Nico Harrison's out there, he just cares so

01:39much.

01:40That's what he wants in Anthony Davis.

01:41All right, so 3 things popped into my head.

01:44Number one, saving face for Nico, wanting to give Mavs fans a little taste of a return

01:51from the trade and the future.

01:55Anthony Davis, steadfast according to this report, because he doesn't want to just be

02:00murdered and killed throughout the entire offseason.

02:02He doesn't want to show that he's, you know, this street clothes softy.

02:07And then, they're gonna say, look, we're in the 10 spot, all right?

02:12Why are we gonna sit there and bail on the season?

02:15They've had the internal discussions, you would think, already.

02:17We already had the discussions saying the farthest they could fall.

02:21It's not that great in terms of team tank, so if you get Anthony Davis back and try to

02:26make a little bit of noise, you do something crazy in a play-in game or a first-round series,

02:32and a little bit, they're trying to generate any little bit of Mavs optimism, I would just

02:37like him to be shut down.

02:38Yeah, because if they're just doing this just to get him healthy so they don't have to forfeit

02:43games, I assume there's a financial penalty with a forfeit.

02:46They apparently, did you send that that Wynhorse said that they petitioned the league for cap

02:51space?

02:52Yeah, Wynhorse had said yesterday, I read an article where he had said that they have

02:55been asking the league for salary cap relief, and the league, to this point, has not offered

02:59it to them.

03:00Right, because that wouldn't be fair.

03:01And it wouldn't be fair to the teams that are Phoenix or whatever, it wouldn't be fair

03:05to them that, oh, well, we're trying to make the playoffs here, and you're giving this

03:08team free cap space.

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