The Dallas Mavericks are not moving to Las Vegas, governor Patrick Dumont says ... and more news

The Dallas Morning News

Dallas Mavericks Governor Patrick Dumont said, “the Dallas Mavericks are not moving to Las Vegas. There is no question in that. That is the answer, unequivocally. The Dallas Mavericks are the Dallas Mavericks and they will be in Dallas.” In other news, the Mavs got some bad news over the weekend though. They could be without their newly acquired star for a handful of games. According to the Mavericks’ injury report late Sunday afternoon, Davis has a left adductor strain. He is expected to miss multiple weeks, according to a person familiar with Davis’ status; the Tarrant County sheriff’s office has notified the public of the year’s first in-custody death at the county jail Saturday. The inmate, whose identity has yet to be reported publicly by the county medical examiner’s office, died at John Peter Smith Hospital two days after attempting suicide. The 36-year-old man is one of nearly 70 people who have died in custody at the jail since Tarrant County Sheriff Bill Waybourn took office in 2017; the Trump Administration’s proposed 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada have been delayed, but a government economist warns that Texas will be “in the line of fire” if they are eventually put in place. Orrenius said her team had done a “back of the envelope” calculation into what a 25% tariff on Mexico could do to the Texas economy, and found a 15-30% decrease in GDP growth.

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