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Anthony Davis spent most of the night treating the Pelicans like his personal classroom and poor rookie big man Derick Queen was the main student.

One floater-and-one turned into a full-blown “to school” moment, the kind of sequence that screams, oh yeah, AD is different.

Davis finished with 35 points and 17 rebounds, stacking his fourth straight double-double, but it still wasn’t enough to save Dallas.

The Mavericks got the superstar production they needed, yet the rest of the night kept drifting toward that familiar, frustrating feeling: a monster AD game getting wasted because the margin for error is razor-thin.

Then the fourth quarter happened, and it fell apart fast.

Dallas went more than three minutes without a bucket late, while New Orleans scored on seven straight possessions and hung 40 points in the final period to pull away in a 119-113 win.

The DLLS Mavs crew broke down how a game Dallas had turned into another “how did they lose that?”

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Overshadowing the Cowboys’ 34-17 loss to the Chargers in their final home game of the season is that we FINALLY got an explanation for how Trevon Diggs suffered a concussion at home, and somehow the answer is even more frustrating than the mystery.

Then Jerry Jones spoke after the game and, naturally, it raised as many questions as it answered.

And because the football gods have a sense of humor, it’s a MAGIC MARKER MONDAY.

The Rangers went over the luxury tax by a laughably small $380,000, but it could reshape their entire offseason, because the penalty for doing it a third straight year is anything but small.

After missing the playoffs again, Ray Davis is drawing a hard line: no more tax, reset the repeater rate from 50% back to 20%, and live to spend another day.

That “financial reset” might sound responsible in the front office, but to fans it reads like paying for past mistakes by shrinking the roster in the present.

Bruh

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Ali Jawad
Dallas Cowboys ​Content Creator/Newsletter Writer
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