Dallas Mavericks fans are a sports lover's dream. They are two things...knowledgeable and passionate! Get two or three together and a SportsCenter segment is gonna break out. I absolutely love it, especially being a native Tennessean and Grizzlies fan. My beloved Grizzlies bring me to a point...a plea if you will to Mavs fans worldwide. Cut Mark Cuban some slack on this one. I know my homies at Ambit don't want to hear that. I probably wouldn't either, but the fact is...Cuban's plan almost worked.
If not for a last second Joe Johnson trade, DWill stated on record that he was about to sign with Dallas. If not for the Hawks being lucky enough to unload the worst contract in NBA history (and that's including Kwame Brown), then Mavericks fans would be making their plans for future title runs.
Lamar Odom did Cuban no favors either. Dallas would have finished a much higher seed if Odom would have put up his career numbers. The Mavericks would have also had a much more attractive roster in place when it came to competing with the Nets. It's like he put a black cloud over the organization this year. Mavs fan Rodrigo Alcaraz summed up Odom's stay in Dallas the best. "He was the gift that kept on taking." lol
And last but certainly not least...every team has to eventually rebuild again. Every team has to. Dallas fans enjoyed a championship, and over a decade of prosperity. It's time to rebuild. All great teams do. But at least you can say this about Cuban, he put you in the best possible position to get a top notch player. It just didn't work out. At least he tried. follow @plcolter
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