Jeff Oates

This isn't where I parked my car.

[Charlotte Lee @cljack]

I'm trying to train Claude to read the weekly emails from my kids school and reliably summarize them and print a list of action items. It is losing its damn mind and rapidly spiraling into madness. I feel vindicated

[Brad Townsend @townbrad]

In the Prime Video studio show, Steve Nash and Blake Griffin teased Dirk Nowitzki about the Mavs getting Flagg despite 1.8% lottery odds.

"That was the vision," Dirk deadpanned.

[Landon Thomas @sixfivelando]

Nico Harrison watching Anthony Davis hobble off the court with an injury…

[Mike Curtis @MikeACurtis2]

Klay Thompson was asked if he would've made the same decision to join the Mavs last summer knowing what he knows now:

"Don't do this to me. Don't do that to me. Don't do that. That's kind of a ridiculous question because I don't own a time machine & I don't believe in going back or looking back. If I did that my whole career, I would not be where I'm at & I wouldn't have been able to persevere through two really hard injuries. I'm here in Dallas & I enjoyed my time & I'm looking forward to the future."

[Luka Updates @LukaUpdates]

Since the trade

[Zach Lowe @ZachLowe_NBA]

The whole thing still doesn't feel like real life.

[Mavs Film Room 🐴🎥 @MavsFilmRoom]

From @Tyler2011Champs

[DLLS Mavs @DLLS_Mavs]

This was gut-wrenching.

[Trae Young @TheTraeYoung]

He was never gonna leave…

[Jason Gallagher @jga41agher]

Mavs should ceremoniously fire Nico at halftime.

[Luka Updates @LukaUpdates]

"Fire Nico"

[ArtButMakeItSports @ArtButSports]

The Return of the Prodigal Son, by Guercino, 1651

[Mavs Film Room 🐴🎥 @MavsFilmRoom]

Luka Dončić checks out of the game for Bronny James.

His night is over and so are the hopes and dreams of the Mavs franchise.

Thank you Luka, go be great.

[PER @mookiewilson86]

@NBA Can't even imagine the Mavs fans' pain. Generational.

[Mavs Film Room 🐴🎥 @MavsFilmRoom]

Nico thought he had 2 years to win and it turns out he didn’t even have 2 months.

Even if Kyrie is on the Mavs next year, it’s hard to imagine him playing, as he will be recovering from a torn ACL.

This disaster was self inflicted by one man.

[Zach Lowe @ZachLowe_NBA]

One of the stated/implied reasons for the Luka trade was that it supposedly boosted the Mavs championship odds over this season/next. I heartily disagreed despite Luka's calf stuff -- YOU WERE JUST IN THE FINALS! AND '22 WCF! -- and even if that were true, it doesn't justify the trade. But pinning so much on a short window always risked this -- making an injury wave even more devastating than it would otherwise be.

[Mavs Film Room 🐴🎥 @MavsFilmRoom]

“You never see it coming, you just get to see it go”

💔💔💔

[Marc Stein @TheSteinLine]

You might say the levels of gloom and despair are the worst since the 1990s — pre-Dirk and Cuban — except that also doesn’t work because this month of near-daily punches to the face started with Dallas itself choosing to trade away its generational superstar after a Finals run.