Why It's Worth Tuning Into Regular-Season Mavs Games After All

Well, besides seeing if they'll make the playoffs, course. But courtesy Odenized (and, like, um, Fox Sports Net) comes this video from last night's Mavs-Clippers game, during which a very tall benchwarmer with a bum ankle is sorta, kinda interviewed by Mark Followill during the latter half of the third...

By Robert Wilonsky

March 26, 2008

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Well, besides seeing if they'll make the playoffs, course. But courtesy Odenized (and, like, um, Fox Sports Net) comes this video from last night's Mavs-Clippers game, during which a very tall benchwarmer with a bum ankle is sorta, kinda interviewed by Mark Followill during the latter half of the third quarter. It's all well and good till about 4:20 into the video, when Dirk's ear piece goes south and he resorts to some play-by-play announcing. Also worth noting: Dirk's use of the word "shortbus" at the end of the quarter. By which I assume he just means this. --Robert Wilonsky

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