NBA Commissioner Adam Silver is responsible for choosing injury replacements, and he selected Kyrie Irving to take Anthony Davis' place as a representative of the Western Conference for this year's All-Star Game. So the Mavericks will have a representative in San Francisco either way.

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

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

T he Dallas Mavericks hosted the Golden State Warriors on the first night of a back-to-back before the All-Star break, but they were as undermanned as a team can get. Anthony Davi

Anthony Davis made a scintillating first impression playing for the Mavericks and while everything looked ideal, the star forward suffered an adductor injury, due to which his stay in the game was curtailed.