Order by the year each player joined the Dallas Mavericks. You place all 52 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.
Here the cards are Mavericks, and the order is the year each one first joined Dallas. Under each name sits the position he played. One player starts on the line with his year shown. Pick a gap for every new card. If it fits, the year comes up and the card stays; if not, the card relocates to its real position anyway and you lose one of your three lives.
An expansion club, Dallas built its first good teams quickly, then spent years rebuilding before a long era centered on one franchise player brought a title. The deck carries on into the newer star-led rosters. Plenty of role players drifted in and out around those cornerstones, and that is where the line fills up. Point guard is the most frequent label, which helps less than it sounds.
Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.
Here are 28 of the 52 cards you might be dealt, with 24 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.
































