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The All-Star break couldn't come soon enough for the Mavericks, especially considering how awkward things must have gotten the moment their plans to trade half their team for Jason Kidd fell apart. Considering the trade is still in limbo, those last couple of games must have been brutal, with teammates sharing a locker room not sure if they'll all be wearing the same jerseys a week later. Dirk Nowitzki spoke to InsideHoops about this earlier today:
Q: Are you worried if the Jason Kidd deal doesn't go through it could split the locker room?

Dirk Nowitzki: Well, I think that's where the leaders of this team have to make sure it doesn't happen. If the locker room gets separated, there's no way we're going to achieve our goal. So, you know, deal or no deal, we've got to make sure that the troops are ready to go. They're fired up. They stay together. And we still want to have fun together, and share good times on the bus, because we spend so much time together you don't want to have distractions in the locker room. We'll just see what happens here next week, and hopefully we can move forward with good locker room chemistry. We always had good chemistry since I got to Dallas. It's always been fun to be around.
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