The biggest game in the NBA on opening night? There are 19,200 Mavs fans who figured it was the first regular-season game in the new $420 million American Airlines Center.
     ?Nothing against MJ,?? says Mavs owner Mark Cuban. ?But this is the biggest crowd to ever watch a basketball game in North Texas. And I?d rather be a part of that than anything. I?d rather watch Mavs-vs.-anybody than MJ.??
     The scene in New York was probably a bit more grand; after all, it?s not every day you get bomb-sniffing dogs pawing their way through press row, as was the case at Madison Square Garden. But there was enough to manage some other observations, as the Mavs are one-54th of the way to being better than they were last season: