The Dallas Mavericks came into Sunday night’s game with an 0-2 record, looking to get on the right track against the Toronto Raptors. Hardwood Classics Night afforded us the gift of beautiful green throwback jerseys and the original logo gracing center court, which may have inspired the players to win 139-129 in something that felt a touch like a must win.

Before we dive into the grades for this game, we invite you to check out the Comments section of the grades pieces we wrote for the Spurs and Wizards games where you can see good discussion between us (myself and Sudarshan Venkatraman, respectively) and you, our readers, regarding how we go about deciding on grades.

One change we’re going to try out for at least this game is displaying the numerical equivalent of our alphabetical gradi

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