Dwight Powell returns from his Achilles injury ready to win
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Heading into the 2020-21 NBA season, the Dallas Mavericks are a team looking to improve on their short but exciting playoff run last summer. Yet, one of the biggest questions facing the team is its health.
Former All-Star Kristaps Porzingis will miss the start of the season as he continues to rehab after undergoing surgery to repair a torn meniscus. With Porzingis sidelined, the health of Dwight Powell, who is returning after a torn Achilles, becomes paramount. How well he plays could determine how the Mavericks fare as the regular season gets underway.
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Kroger, the nation s largest supermarket chain, anticipates its pharmacists will start vaccinating North Texans in the first approved groups by the end of the year. I m hoping we are actively administering doses to those very limited populations probably in the last week of the year but then definitely into the early weeks of January. I see us expanding as the allocations start to expand out and we start to expand that to additional populations, said Jeff Loesch, the Director of Pharmacy for Kroger Health Dallas.
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About the Mavericks (1-0 in preseason): They will be playing without Kristaps Porzingis until sometime in January, coach Rick Carlisle has said. That means the starting lineup will be fluid and likely feature Dwight Powell at center with perhaps Dorian Finney-Smith at power forward and Tim Hardaway Jr. and Josh Richardson also joining point guard Luka Dončić in the lineup. That’s what they went with in the preseason opener, with the starters only playing 16 minutes, all in the first half. Could be a longer run for them tonight . . . Jalen Brunson is being counted on to be the leader of the Mavericks’ second unit and in the preseason opener, the third-year guard appeared completely recovered from the shoulder surgery he had in February . . . The Mave
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