The big news from the Dallas Mavericks’ (32-30) 122-98 loss to the Sacramento Kings (32-28) Monday at American Airlines Center was the hurtin’ kind, and the statistics tell a tale of woe to match.

Kyrie Irving, the Mavs’ last best hope for anything resembling winning basketball or, hell, even a little entertainment down the stretch, had to be helped off the floor late in the first quarter after suffering a sprained knee, and Dallas limped the rest of the way to the finish line in the lopsided loss. Irving did not return after the injury, but even though he stuck around to shoot the ensuing free throws, the hyperextension on the play didn’t have the look of a minor injury.

To add further insult to the cavalcade of ridiculous injury the Mavs have suffered lately, Jaden Hardy, who replaced Irving as primary ball-handler after the knee injury, left the game in the third after rolling his right ankle.

God help us all. Zach LaVine led all scorers with 22 points on 8-of-12 shooting in the win, while newly signed center Kai Jones led Dallas with 21 points on 9-of-10 shooting from the floor in his first game with the team. Here are three stats from what became a very ugly game as the thing wore on.

15: Consecutive missed 3-pointers by Naji Marshall

Naji Marshall bricked his first and only 3-point attempt of the first half midway through the first quarter, and it wasn’t a particularly close miss. From there, Marshall was skittish to shoot from the outside, finishing with just four points in the first half. Perhaps that’s because the miss was his 13th straight whiff from 3-point range over his last 2-plus games, dating back to Tuesday’s 107-99 loss at the Los Angeles Lakers. You remember the one.

Marshall went 0-for-6 from deep in Thursday’s 103-96 win over the Charlotte Hornets and 0-for-4 in Saturday’s 132-117 loss to the Milwaukee Bucks. He scored just 10 combined points in those two games, but snapped out of the funk a little, at least, in the third quarter against the Kings. Marshall scored eight of Dallas’ 16 points in the third on his way to 18 in the loss. He also dished six assists.

That’s right. The bewildered, shorthanded Mavs scored just 16 points in the third quarter as Sacramento built their lead from a respectable 10 points to as many as 28 in the frame. Marshall missed his 14th and 15th 3-balls in a row in the fourth quarter. Dallas shot just 7-of-26 (26.9%)

9:25: The last minutes Kyrie Irving spends in a Mavericks uniform?

Irving went down with 2:35 left in the first and put as little weight as possible on his left knee as he was helped off the floor after scoring seven points to pace the Mavs offensively to that point in the game. That’s when the wild speculation started blowing through the Mavs Moneyball Slack channel: did we just witness the last few minutes of Irving’s time in a Mavericks uniform?

It’s possible — plausible, even, though the Mavs figure to be the leading candidates to retain the services of the star 32-year old guard when he hits free agency this offseason, that we just witnessed Irving’s last dance in Dallas. Depending on the prognosis of the three injured big men on the roster (Anthony Davis, Dereck Lively II and Daniel Gafford are scheduled to be re-evaluated for their respective injuries on Thursday) and the severity of his own injury, it’s within the realm of possibility that Kyrie could be shut down for the year as a result of this sprained knee.

The situation in Dallas has gone from sour to putrid in the month or so since the team gave Luka Dončić away for some busted spare parts and a cup of coffee between friends. Irving has been a good soldier during his time in Dallas, and his rebuilt reputation around the league could mean more of a market for his twilight contract, depending on how much (if any off the top) of a haircut he’s willing to take.

21: A career-high scoring night for Kai Jones

With the injury parade trampling all over the Mavericks’ front lawn, the Mavericks are making a habit of hosting short-term rentals who just happen to have career scoring nights in their abbreviated stints with Dallas. Kai Jones became the latest for the Mavs in the blowout loss to the Kings.

In 95 career NBA games out of the University of Texas, Jones’ career-high scoring output was just 12 points coming into Monday’s contest. He broke that mark in the first half, as he led Dallas with 13 points, four rebounds and a blocked shot at halftime. He went on to score 21 points and grab nine boards in 34 minutes.

Jones signed to a two-way deal with the team just hours before Monday’s game after Moses Brown had a career night with 20 points and 11 rebounds last week against the Hornets. Brown’s 10-day contract with the Mavs has since expired.