“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.
The Dallas Cowboys are ALL IN 🔥🔥
• Worst run defense in the NFL
• Most PPG allowed in the NFL
• Allows the 24th most yards per game
• Worst 4th down defense
• BY FAR the worst RB room in the NFL
• Bottom 30 in Red Zone Scoring %
• 3 STRAIGHT BLOWOUT LOSSES AT HOME
HAPPY 15TH ANNIVERSARY TO MY DEBUT ALBUM
MAN ON THE MOON: THE END OF DAY
4 X PLATINUM, 2 DIAMOND SINGLES (first 2000s album to do so), AND MILLIONS UPON MILLIONS OF FANS WORLDWIDE THAT CONNECTED WITH A YOUNG KID FROM CLEVELAND OHIO.
I feel so validated everytime someone says they felt this album. I didnt know if Id even be able to do another one. I didn't know where my career was headed. And you all embraced me and took me to the galaxy. I was nervous before the album dropped, I couldnt sleep a few nights before it came out, and I was worried it might've been too out there. But once it dropped, the overwhelming postive responses let me know that following my heart and instincts was the right path, and every album since I haven't felt that nervousness. Because of yall. Because of your unwavering love and support. Dream big, and chase them. You never know where the path to achieving great things can take you.
To my whole team that brought this bad boy together, Dot, Pat, Emile, Kilhoffer, all my features, Chip, MGMT, RATATAT, Ye, Common (thank you so much for narrating the story brother u made it complete!!) and Jeff Bhasker aka Billy Kraven, I LOVE YOU GUYS AND COULDN'T HAVE DONE IT WITH OUT YOU, and everyone at Motown that rode for me and believed, ESPECIALLY SYLVIA RHONE, you changed my life forever and Ill never forget it or even be able to repay you. Love you Sylvia 🥹🙏🏾
TO ALL MY FANS, WE'VE COME A LONG WAY, AND THERE'S STILL SO MUCH TO SEE AND DO. I'LL NEVER LET YOU DOWN, AND KNOW THAT I WILL ALWAYS KEEP PUSHING US FORWARD, TO THE FUTURE, AS MY MISSION HAS ALWAYS BEEN.
I LOVE YOU SO MUCH 🥹❤️🔥🥰 DONT EVER DOUBT THAT!!!
YOUR BIG BRO, SCOTT ✌🏾