Irving’s whatever-it-takes mentality has trickled down to the rest of the team, winners of four of its last five games.

Kyrie Irving and Klay Thompson received injury updates before the Mavericks' game against the Heat on Thursday.

Jimmy Butler didn’t solve all the Warriors’ problems, after all. After winning the first two games of the Butler era, the Warriors dropped one of their worst losses of the season. In Dallas, in front of a crowd still reeling from the Luka Doncic trade aftershocks,