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[Jason Gallagher @jga41agher]

“I did know Luka was important to the fan base. I didn’t know quite to this level." - The Worst GM

[MFFL @Mavs_FFL]

Happy Luka Dončić day to all of Dallas County

#MFFL

[Joel Moran @joelvmoran]

This PROVES the Luka Doncic trade was an INSIDE job by the NBA

- Forced the Mavericks to trade Luka Doncic so the Lakers had a future
- Mavericks get the 1st overall pick to build around their next franchise star

INSIDE JOB LOL

[lynz ✭ @lynziekate]

HOW DO YOU NOT KNOW. EVERYBODY WHO FOLLOWS THE NBA KNOWS. YOU ARE THE GENERAL MANAGER AND YOU DIDNT KNOW????????????

[Sam Gannon @SamGannon87]

One of the biggest head scratchers to come out of this press conference was this quote about Luka:

“Well there’s no guarantee he would have signed the supermax.”

-Mavs GM Nico Harrison

Luka was going to sign it. He was all in on the Mavs.

[MFFL NATION @NationMffl]

This’ll make a grown man cry

Best Luka tribute video I’ve seen yet 😞💙

[Dallas Nation @TheDallasNation]

DEAR NICO HARRISON:

“ONE THING YOU’LL NEVER BE AND THAT’S OURS” 🤯

GIVE THIS A LISTEN!! 👂🏽

[Showtime Luka @showtimeluka]

In case you don’t understand why people are mad, a second opportunity of this was traded which goes beyond basketball.

[Flagg Mavs @FlaggMavs]

“Loyalty Never Fades” & “Mavs Fan For Life”

How the mantra of a community for the last 27 years was murdered in its sleep:

The Dallas Mavericks were never just a sports team. They never felt like a “Big Market Team” even when they technically were.

The franchise was built on loyalty, respect, and an owner who once treated the players and fans as if they were family. There was a time when @mcuban wasn’t just the owner or a figurehead, but a hardcore fan who poured his passion into this organization.

Recently Cuban sold the team, not because he was in financial trouble, or because he couldn’t afford to keep running the team. He sold it to be greedy and guised it under the idea of “easing the pressure on his kids”.

He sold the Mavericks to partner with the Adelsons and get his hand in the cookie jar of real estate development and casinos. He simultaneously sold his soul to the Democratic Party and turned into a Rachel Maddow look-alike.

He relinquished GM duties to a shoe salesman in what most fans assume was a pre-meditated act that lead to the events that transpired this week.

In the middle of the night the casino moguls and the shoe salesman traded away the heart and soul of a community for reasons that can’t possibly pertain to basketball.

They didn’t get the best offer possible. They didn’t make any other teams aware of the dealings. They didn’t give their franchise player a warning. They didn’t give their loyal fans a chance to prepare. Instead they opted to shop him to one team for what will go down as the most embarrassing franchise altering trade in the history of sports.

The slimy shoe salesman didn’t just destroy the mantras, he proceeded to leak destructive details about Luka Doncic in an effort to make himself look better.

The DFW metroplex in its entirety was furious about the trade. In a Cowboys city, Luka Doncic was the face of Dallas. Not Dak Prescott, not Micah Parsons, but Luka Doncic was the most popular player in the history of this town. I’ll even put him up against the Super Bowl Dynasty Dallas Cowboys players like Troy Aikman and Emmitt Smith.

Protests, season ticket cancellations, it was organizational suicide in every essence of the word. People saying they didn’t know the fall out when they made the deal are naive, stupid, or both. These snakes knew EXACTLY what they were doing.

This morning the Charlotte Hornets got more draft capital for Mark Williams than the Mavs got for Luka Doncic. Further insult to injury.

This isn’t a bump in the road but rather a generational blockade for Mavs fandom. There are kids literally in tears in homes all across DFW. There are grown men who are otherwise reasonable losing sleep over a player being traded.

Sports represent hope. And once in a generation there is a player that captures the love of an entire city in ways unfathomable to most fan bases. Luka Doncic in that way was Michael Jordan, he was Kobe Bryant, he was Tom Brady. There’s one constant between those 3 iconic players… their organization NEVER abandoned them. Their city NEVER abandoned them.

This is the most destructive trade to a fan base in any sport in the history of the world, not just this country. Luka Doncic being sent out isn’t just losing a player, they shipped the entire Mavs fanbase out with him.

There is no more loyalty. There is no more MFFL. They destroyed an entire franchise in the dead of night… and they did it so ruthlessly that it had to be the plan all along despite the consequences.

[m⁷⁷ @miss77ela]

i will never recover 😭💔

[Luka Dončić @lukadoncic]

#MFFL

[All Things Mavs | Jimmy C Hoops @All_Things_Mavs]

This is gonna be my only emotional farewell + thank you post about Luka.

I genuinely can’t believe he’s getting traded. There isn’t any trade package that could have convinced me trading Luka Doncic was a good idea. I fully bought into Luka as the next Dirk Nowitzki; while I knew nobody could ever replace Dirk for me personally, I was 100% sold that this dude was gonna go down as one of the greatest of all time, and he just so happen to play for MY favorite team.

Right when he got to Dallas, I was ready for him and Dennis Smith Jr. to be together forever. Then DSJ got traded for Porzingis, and I was sold that he and Luka would bring Dallas a title. Then Porzingis got moved, and I fully trusted that Luka Doncic would carry the team himself, which he almost did in 2022. Then Jalen Brunson left for New York, and I thought everything would be fine bc Luka was still a Maverick. Then the Kyrie trade happened, and I knew he and Luka would do insane things; which they did when they made it to the NBA Finals. That Finals run was the most fun I’ve had as a Mavs fan since 2011, and it’s mostly thanks to Luka Doncic. And they capitalized by putting a nearly perfect team together this season that just can’t stay healthy sadly.

I’ve defended him against every troll and opposing fan out there for anything negative they’ve ever said, because on the court, he’s the most talented player I’ve ever seen wear a Dallas Maverick jersey.

He bought into Dallas. He bought into being a full-on Texan and it was awesome.

I literally got to watch this mysterious Slovenian kid move to a new country, grow up and dominate the league.

And now he’s being traded. I don’t care if his conditioning was bad; he is still top-3 every season. I don’t care if his defense was meh; his offense was the best in the league. I don’t care about any of it because THE FRANCHISE I LOVE has propped him up since the day he was drafted as the next GOAT, and I was all here for it and was ride or die with him until the wheels fell off. If we never won a single title with Luka, I would have been sad, but I NEVER would have blamed Luka. He’s the reason we were even CLOSE.

I know Luka Doncic will never read this, but man I’m so so sorry it happened like this. I know you’re probably gonna love LA, but I know you loved Dallas and started your family here and gave literal blood, sweat & tears for this team. And you got shipped off without warning. That sucks and all the true fans know it sucks.

I was a Mavs fan before Luka Doncic got here, and I’ll be a Mavs fan long after, but this trade is the closest I’ve ever been to questioning what it means to be a fan. When you feel betrayed by the team that you give a lot of energy to, you start to realize that team doesn’t care about you. The million/billionaires up top don’t care about you. And that really sucks. All of this feels like a slap in the face, but something even less personal than that, because at least a slap would have to happen face-to-face, and this all happened “in the shadows.”

Go crush it Luka. Go Mavs.

[Dirk Nowitzki @swish41]

😳

[Nintendo of America @NintendoAmerica]

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[Dirk Nowitzki @swish41]

Finals!!! Let’s go!

[Dirk Nowitzki @swish41]

Wow