After having the third-best odds of winning the No. 1 overall pick in the NBA Lottery, the Dallas Mavericks were forced to by Tuesday night’s end settle for pick No. 5. Or maybe “settle” is the wrong word. And “content” surely is. “We are never content,” Mavs owner Mark Cuban tells DallasBasketball.com. “We will be open to any and all options.” This response could be Cuban mood-powering his way through a lotto result that was just a case of rotten luck, plain and simple. (Oh, and "sickening,'' as Fish writes here.) And when you look at the Mavs’ franchise history when it comes to having top-six odds in the lottery, you’ll see that the trend of either staying put or moving down continued here. to wit: read more https://247sports.com/nba/mavericks...t-content-with-No-5-open-to-options-118288347