Stories about the Mavericks you can read today

If you need a distraction, here's some good pieces.

By Tim Cato@tim_cato Jul 8, 2016, 9:40am CDT

We're going to keep a low profile today. Dallas, stay strong.

Here's some links you can read today about the Mavericks.

Rob Mahoney's excellent SI piece on the Mavs offseason so far
Zach Lowe on the Harrison Barnes dilemma from a year ago
Dwain Price wrote about how the Mavericks are grooming Michael Finley for a front office role
Alex Wong of Sports on Earth talked about team loyalty and how it related to Dirk
If you haven't read this Jason Gallagher piece about how Mavs fans are Dirk fans for life, you should
ESPN's Tim MacMahon has a similar look at Dirk's loyalty
5 years of the Mavericks whiffing on all their top targets

You should also read Josh Bowe's fantastic analysis of the new roster and all our other free agency coverage, of course.