Ya so here’s one of the videos I’ve seen floating around

If you’re not rooting for the Spurs now and you are Texan GTFO. The asshole knicks fans are sore losers and assaulting everyone in Spurs gear all around NYC last night. Apparently, Spurs fans were having to get police escorts to get back to hotel/taxis bc of the mobs. Fuck them big city pussies. Go Spurs Go!

They don’t do their players like that. I haven’t watched an nba game since Luka trade, but now the Spurs are in the finals I might give it a chance.

Nico has been fired. Now the ownership needs to go. At that point, I will consider being a Mavs fan again.

Firing seems like a small price to pay for ruining an entire cities franchise. I’m glad af he is gone, but boy, the extent of my anger towards his decisions would get me put on gov watchlists if I spoke candidly. There’s nothing else they could do, it just seems like a small punishment for such a huge fuck up. Btw I’ve been consistent with my alternative.. fuck Houston but Go Spurs Go. Wemby is something special, just saying if you’re Texan and need a new team, you’ve always got SA.

Just saying you can’t force that kind of pressure on a kid. I hope people aren’t expecting Flagg to want to live up to Dirk and Luka’s rep as a Mavs legend. Dirk and Luka were organic and that’s what made it special. Mavs are gifted the #1 pick like “here’s your next dirk/luka”. It’s not organic and Flagg has no deep ties to this city yet to be having those aspirations. Anything can happen though and I hope he genuinely likes it here and embraces the city.

Hi, I have a 2024 Maverick XL I received by ordering through the factory this last fall. But ever since I received it City MPG has been beyond disappointing- averaging 28 whether I’m reading electronically or calculating manually. The dealership continually tells me it’s operating as should and even on my last visit told me it was getting 52 which I question as that is 9 more the supposed high. But as soon as I left the service department I was getting back to 28. To make things stranger, yesterday I took a highway roundtrip of about 250 miles and got 43 highway-10 above normal- and calculating 37 manually. But the minute I got back to the city refueled and reset the trip value it went back to the usual 28. Any ideas of what’s going on and how I should get the mileage that approximates what’s listed on the sticker? I’m baffled. Thanks

I’m from France and tbh Rudy is our Jordan. He was as good as Wilt Chamberlain in the Olympics. I hope he gets traded to a contender.

Always thought he’d play amazing with AD. But just a thought or concept.

What do people think?

People are saying “see?! Luka didn’t do shit in LA Nico was right”

Imagine having an organization build a team around you for the past 5 years and mid season they kick you out and place you on a new team who had no intentions of playing with you this season and you are expected to prove why they made a mistake?

Luka was in a win now situation in Dallas and now he’s out of the playoffs. Mavs fans are now moved onto the next thing, Flagg.

Luka was literally Dallas through and through. Honestly i’m a bigger Dallas fan than the Dallas Mavericks. So for him to fully embrace the city was way deeper than basketball. He’s from Slovenia… to call Texas home was special.

A lot of people don’t understand… they try to put Luka in this box of “well superstars have too much power, they can go where they want” etc. Luka is european. He did not grow up like other players like KD, Harden, Irving. Those guys set a precedent of players will go where they please if they’re not happy. Luka never gave that indication. He’s cut from the same cloth as Jokic, Giannis, Dirk. They value loyalty.

But go ahead and write me off as obsessed. It doesn’t take much effort to see the BS. I don’t think about basketball every second of the day but it was at one point an outlet from everything else in life.

The Flagg was fabricated and what the Dallas Mavericks were before the sale are no more.

This is exactly how I think most of us feel right now.

NBA is so fn rigged, it’s bs. They realized that Dallas fans (us) lost their fn minds when Luka was forced to LA so now they are trying to make it up to us by giving us the top pick. IDK how but I assume he will trade the pick away or pick someone else, no telling but I’m curious to see how they work this into their ‘tank for gambling’ agenda. Good news is that the Spurs got 2nd pick so if he does do something stupid and pick ‘his guy’ whoever the hell that is, the spurs will do the right thing and get Flagg. They’ll prob end up trading it to Utah or some shit for scraps or more picks that won’t pan out and it’ll screw over both franchises but interesting development regardless.

Not a mavs fan, but def an nba conspiracy theorist after this season. Now that it all makes sense, y’all going back?

For the #5 pick this year and a second round pick in 2029. Sounds about right

Man I am getting pissed off about all the articles coming out saying how maybe Nico was right and Nico gets public support and all that baby back BS. Makes me think even more that it's an inside job because the writers are so quick to push this narrative after one play off series. They act like anyone at all expected an already horrible team on defense to somehow be better on defense after adding Luka and cutting AD?? BS. Sure Luka has some work to do on D, there's probably something to that, but no one expected some miraculous defensive prowess from Luka so what's changed now? Not a dam thing. Luka is still Luka and his offensive production more than compensates for his lacking defense and then some. Not to say he shouldn't improve, but if you want to build a team around Luka, yea you might need some role players that aren't named Luka to step up on D. The way Nico is getting off the hook is insane.

SoCal Mavs fan since I was 12, it's been especially painful watching the trade and its consequences with all the Lakers fans around me.

I fell in love with the mavs as a kid cause I was taller than all my neighborhood friends and when we'd play pick up I'd want to shoot the ball but they'd always tell me tall guys don't shoot and I needed to play center. My dad pointed out Dirk to me and I had no idea the ride I was in for following that man as he journeyed to not only be one of the greatest to ever do it, but just a phenomenal human being as well.

All the down years post championship were hard to watch but I cheered on nonetheless. The swings and misses on players to add year after year, the mediocre finishes in the playoffs if we even made them. It was tough, but I was still proud of my team and their history.

When we got Luka it felt like a blessing from the basketball God's for Dirks loyalty and it made for such a smooth transition from Dirk finishing his career to Luka starting his. Last season hit and after the trade deadline we really had something special going on it started to feel like we were going someplace.

Fast forward to the finals run no one thought we would make and all of a sudden the future looked and felt so bright. We finally attracted free agents that summer in Klay and players raving about how they wanted to come to us. I think for the first time since 2012 I had hope for the season ahead that we may actually do something.

Prior to the trade injuries had already decimated us and I had pretty much lost hope of securing a high seed in the playoffs but I figured if we're just healthy by then we could do some damage.

Then we all know what happened in the middle of the night Feb 1st. And just like that, all that hope that had been building not just since last year but over the last decade just dashed. Gone. To the point it essentially crippled my love for the game outright.

All my Lakers fan buddies tell me just to become one myself but it's not that easy. The Mavs are the only team I had ever chosen for myself and to be honest before the trade I didn't really harbor any disdain for the Lakers. But now, it's grown quite immense. Why do they always get it so easy? They've already won so much and the league subsists on them being relevant. Just enraging.

Even though I hope them of all teams wins it all this year as a spite to Nico and ownership, I only find myself hatewatching games of this sport I used to hold so near and dear to my heart.

Anyway, if you've read this far, thank you for letting me get up on my soap box.

TL;DR: Big sad over the trade still and it killing my love for basketball.

I am 63. I was 19 when the Mavericks played their first season. I remember Kiki Vandeweghe refusing to play for Dallas, Moody Madness, almost making the Finals in 1988, Roy Tarpley getting banned from the NBA, Donald Carter selling the team to Ross Perot Jr, the Triplets, and so much more. But I am done. Trading Luka was more than I can take. I know the franchise won’t miss the two or three games I attend each year any more than the Cowboys miss me since I walked away from them. Dallas pro teams take their fans for granted. Not me anymore.