Mavs Moneyball

Photo by Glenn James/NBAE via Getty Images Some fans are taking leave of the Dallas Mavericks By now, we all know that the Luka Doncic trade to the Los Angeles Lakers is one of the worst trades in sports history. It’s so shocking, that it crossed into all other elements of life to the point that it was in the Grammys, Bill Gates commented on it, and even Duolingo dunked … [Read more...] about Six considerations as we regroup as Dallas Mavericks fans

Photo by Logan Riely/NBAE via Getty Images Fandom is complicated Like other Mavs fans, I was shaken to the core by the new Saturday Night Massacre known as the Luka Doncic trade. It unfortunately brought back memories of the original DFW version: Saturday, Feb. 24, 1989. That was when Arkansas slickster Jerry Jones used the cover of darkness to sneak Jimmy Johnson into … [Read more...] about Thanks to the Dallas Cowboys I am not done with the Dallas Mavericks

Jerome Miron-Imagn Images Somehow this season is worse than two years ago but the players are fighting in every game The Dallas Mavericks — beleaguered and thinned out — refuse to roll over. Amid a crisis-level PR disaster, a decimated frontline, and massive minutes for Kyrie Irving — they keep on fighting. The schedule pushes forward regardless and now Dallas faces a … [Read more...] about 3 things before the Warriors, Mavericks face off

Jerome Miron-Imagn Images Nico Harrison and the Mavericks ownership don’t understand the basketball community in Dallas. I won’t get into how bad Nico Harrison’s trade of Luka Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers is, or was, or will be. We’ve already done that here plenty. We’ve gone over how bad the return was, and how this sets the Dallas Mavericks backwards, and how … [Read more...] about The Dallas Mavericks lost sight of what matters

Photo by Tim Heitman/Getty Images This organization continues to make a mockery of itself It’s becoming abundantly clear that the Adelson and Dumont families and general manager Nico Harrison will never get what the Dallas Mavericks organization was built on before they ran it into the ground. Sunday marks the eighth day since Luka Doncic was inexplicably traded to the … [Read more...] about In latest interview, Patrick Dumont shows he will never get it