The Cavaliers and Dallas Mavericks square off tonight and with both teams starting off their seasons hot, it should be an entertaining matchup. And what better way to preview tonight's matchup, than to have BRIAN CUBAN, Attorney for Mark Cuban Companies and the brother of the Mavericks owner on for a quick interview.

You can listen to the whole interview here:

Brian Cuban Cavaliers/Mavericks Preview

You can catch Brian at his website and Twitter page.

The Cavs beat Coach Kuester's Pistons 98-88 in Detroit last night. LeBron had 34-8-7, Daniel Gibson threw in an extremely efficient 13, and Mo Williams had double digit points with 8 assists.  All that said, Dan Gilbert stole the show for me from the announcers' chair.

Dan Gilbert on Maverick Carter...

Dan Gilbert made a number of points during the broadcast last night that are worth expanding on at a later date - and one in particular that's worth expanding on this morning.  I thought Gilbert made it a point last night to publicly take up for LeBron James' business partners, specifically Maverick Carter, after some recent heat that's been directed towards their camp.  When LeBron sat down next to Carter late in the 4th quarter, Fred McLeod said that "LeBron has 31 points tonight as he takes a seat next to his good friend Maverick Carter."  To which Dan Gilbert responded, "LeBron has 31 points, but you know what, Maverick Carter has 362 emails during this game alone, and that's probably a new record."  My thoughts on that...just my speculation here - Mav Carter probably does get 300+ emails a game, and he probably gets somewhere around 1000 a day.  And if I got that many emails, its possible that I might miss one, from say a mom who can't wait to get some memorabilia up on ebay.  I am not referencing anyone specifically though, so don't get "mad." Back to references, this was the second time last night that Carter was referenced during the telecast.  Earlier in the game, the ball bounced into his hands courtside, and McLeod acknowledged Carter first by referencing him as a former gridiron star at St. V's.  Gilbert also added that he did play a couple of seasons of PG at Western Michigan.

LeBron James just put together what most NBA players would call a career week.  To James, its just the latest of his (21) player of the week awards.  He was named, yesterday, the NBA's Eastern Conference Player of the Week for games played Monday (11-16) through Sunday (11-22), a stretch in which he averaged 34-6-9.  

His nightly numbers, and video highlights are below:

LBJ went for 31 points and 12 assists in a win against Golden State (11-17).  And you might have heard, he kinda deflected one of Monta Ellis' shot attempts.

In the only loss of the 4-game stretch, LeBron scored a game high 34 points against the Wiz (11-18).  He also found Jamario "Moon-walking" above the rim.  

And then a season high 40 against the Pacers.  For fun, he also grabbed 9 boards and dished out 7 dimes in the 105-95 win (11-20) and then closed the week out at home by netting 32, grabbing 7, and dishing out 9.  And how about the old guy Z finding the young fella James...he does remind me a lot of Magic...Zydrunas that is (11-22).