Harrison held a news conference on Tuesday in which attendance was limited and recording devices were prohibited.

After months of endless Chicken Little-ing about the NBA's early-season ratings challenges, the league's most vocal critics have little to crow about as the playoffs get underway, since overall TV deliveries were largely of a piece with last year's numbers.

Before the game, Mavs coach Jason Kidd said some had compared the trading of Dončić to “Babe Ruth, which is kind of cool.”