Mercifully, Davis intimated to reporters after the game that he would be fine. "Anthony Davis said he felt 'a little spasm' with his previous abdomen injury and said it's 'nothing serious,'" veteran NBA reporter Marc Stein wrote on social media after the game.

Injuries are something that plagued Davis' career with the Los Angeles Lakers, so fans had a pointed reaction when he went down with an injury on Saturday in his first game with the new team. For the most part, the general reaction from Lakers fans was "have fun with this."

Prototypically, when a franchise acquires a player of Anthony Davis’ caliber, fans are chomping at the bit to see his eventual debut on the court. Of course, things are anything but protocol nowadays in Dallas.