The Mavericks may have been playing games with Luka Doncic’s status long before he was shockingly traded to the Lakers earlier this month. The star guard was in such poor shape going into the season that Dallas used an injury in November “that was not entirely true” so that Doncic could have extra time to ramp up,

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