They still remember Jim Jackson here, the man who started his NBA career in Big D 10 years ago.It was during the darkest days of the franchise, when the Mavericks were competing with the Cowboys for the most wins in a season.

It was a time when Jackson's career was a mixture of brilliant and miserable, of shattered hopes of stardom, thanks to an ankle he darn near shattered.

A security guard who used to nod at Jackson in that earlier era in the bowels of Reunion Arena flagged him down this series to say hello -- "Hey, we miss you down here!"