Don’t know which section will start it off tonight. But you’d think that within a few minutes during the Mavericks’ home game tonight against Phoenix, all of American Airlines Center will be united in a full-throated chant of “Sell The Team.” And that chant will continue throughout the game, and during Friday’s NBA Cup game with the Clippers, and so on, and so on.
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Everyone’s still mad about the Luka Dončić trade, right?
Or did the pound of desired flesh by the Mavs’ fan base end, along with its months-long siren song of “Fire Nico” during home games, with the sacking of the now-former general manager who recommended trading Dončić to the Lakers, rather than the ownership group that okayed it? Is everyone good just watching Cooper Flagg do work from now on?
Nico Harrison is gone, his place in sports lore cemented alongside John Holland, the Chicago Cubs general manager who, in 1964, traded outfielder Lou Brock and three other players to the St. Louis Cardinals in a six-player deal for two players, including pitcher Ernie Broglio, who was supposed to be the centerpiece of the deal for Chicago. Instead, Brock helped the Cardinals win the ’64 World Series, became a six-time All-Star in St. Louis, one of the greatest base stealers of all time and a Hall of Famer, while Broglio won exactly thr
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