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Ouch....Did you see this?

http://mavsblog.dallasnews.com/archi...ar-me-now.html

The Mavericks tried to call DeSagana Diop to tell him he had been traded.

The problem: his cell phone didn't work. Donnie Nelson tracked him down to a Verizon store in Irving late Friday afternoon and asked him to step outside to deliver the news.

The Mavericks backup center had been traded to Charlotte for three-point specialist Matt Carroll and backup center Ryan Hollins.

"We are huge DeSagana fans,'' said Nelson, the team's president of basketball operations. "He's one of my favorite people that I've ever had the chance to work with. This is tough.

"But you can never have enough shooters. Matt, over the course of his career, is one of the top three-point shooters in the league. Hollins, I think, is a very underrated, versatile, athletic 5-4 (center-forward) that can give us a different kind of look.''

Carroll and Hollins should arrive in Dallas Saturday but are not expected to play against Utah. The plan is for them to take their physicals, practice Sunday and Monday then accompany the team to Philadelphia for the start of its four-game Eastern Conference road trip.