Now what?
It’s not like the Dallas Mavericks can undo the Luka Dončić trade. Yes, firing general manager Nico Harrison for making one of the most fireable-offense trades in NBA history was a necessary first step, not to mention a dive in front of the freight train of Harrison inevitably extending Anthony Davis’s contract next summer.
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But now comes the hard part: Dallas has to dig its way out of this mess, one that has left the team with a 3-8 record through 11 games.
Part of that is because the Mavericks are missing Kyrie Irving, who is still sidelined with a torn ACL, and lack a real on-ball shot creator. Part of that is because the Mavericks are built on a leftover fiction from the Dončić trade, the idea that Davis is A) a power forward and not a center, and B) a guy who can create with the ball in his hands. And part of that is because of other mistakes up and down the roster; it got less attention than the Dončić deal, but trading Quentin Grimes for a bag of hammers has aged nearly as ba
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