NBA spokesman Mike Bass: “The NBA commenced an investigation today into the facts and circumstances surrounding the Dallas Mavericks’ roster decisions and game conduct with respect to last night’s Chicago Bulls-Mavericks game, including the motivations behind those actions.”
NBA spokesman Mike Bass: "The NBA commenced an investigation today into the facts and circumstances surrounding the Dallas Mavericks’ roster decisions and game conduct with respect to last night’s Chicago Bulls-Mavericks game, including the motivations behind those actions.”
— Tim MacMahon (@espn_macmahon) April 8, 2023
by HokageEzio
14 Comments
Respectfully:
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna dooooo
Remove protections from their pick this year as punishment. That would be hilarious.
LMFAO. Had people trying to argue with me in the NBA sub that they weren’t trying to lose last night. It was clear as day. I won’t get my hopes up, but fingers crossed they lose a pick lol.
Thinking back to our shitty teams, I don’t think we ever intentionally tanked. We just had generationally-dumb management and were just flat-out terrible.
J Kidd throwing the FO and Cuban under the bus last night was the gas on the fire.
Ngl, what the Mavs did last night was one of the most egregious acts of unsportsmanlike behavior that I have ever seen. Everyone fucking knows why they did what they did. They threw the season knowing they’d rather keep the draft pick than chase a seemingly unsuccessful playoff run. Fucking cowards. And they did this with two hall of farmers on their roster.
If Adam Silver let’s this slide, he can’t say shit about tanking or game manipulation ever again. At this point you either go back to the previous draft odds or punish Mavs for dishonoring their draft protections.
Removing the Top 10 protection on the pick and rigging the lottery for the Knicks would be the perfect way for the NBA to send an anti-tank message
LMFAO imagine if they remove the protection and the pick jumps into the top 4. SILVER DO IT YOU COWARD
Silver is a coward nothing is going to happen except a chump change fine.
Before you all get too excited, let me just say that the only thing that will happen **at the absolute most** is that the NBA will make the Mavericks forfeit a future 2nd.
Remove the protections you cowards
Give us their pick next year too just to hammer the point in
What a joke of a franchise. It’ll just be some fine by Slenderman.
Just curious what’s the difference between what the mavs did and the blazers who shut down everyone like a month ago or OKC who selectively sat Alexander, or the pacers etc. other than timing..
Given the NBA’s high profile problem with “load management”, this was pretty egregious.The Mavs weren’t resting players for future games in the playoffs, they rested them to *not* have future games in the playoffs.
Adam Silver should make an example out of them, it’s a slam-dunk PR move.