The mess doesn’t stop. The Mavericks’ decision to rest a good part of their squad in the loss against the Bulls (112-115) it has raised controversy and, now, it can also have disciplinary consequences. This has been announced by the best League in the world through its spokesperson, Mike Bass: “The NBA today launched an investigation into the facts and circumstances surrounding the Dallas Mavericks’ roster decisions. and game conduct with respect to last night’s Mavericks-Bulls game, including the motivations behind those actions”, the statement said. A problem that is added to those that the Texans already have, eliminated from the play in and with a summer in which they will be condemned to the corner of thinking.
The Mavericks board decided that, given the difficulty of reaching tenth place in the Western Conference (the last one that gives access to the play in) and thinking about the future, it was more important (for them) to secure a future high round of the draft and have one of the 10 worst records in the NBA to advance in the two remaining games, something unlikely when depending on the Thunder. If they fell outside the top 10 in terms of negative balances, the pick would go to the Knicks, something previously negotiated in the transfer that took Kristaps Porzingis from the Big Apple to Dallas in 2019. The Mavs fell and they have to do the same against the Spurs on the last day of the competition, and for that They gave rest to the staff of their staff.
Descansaron Kyrie Irving, Christian Wood, Josh Green, Maxi Klebber y Tim Hardaway. And Luka Doncic played less than 13 minutes for two reasons: it was the Slovenian Night in Dallas and that way he would play his 66th game of the season, the minimum number stipulated by the NBA to be eligible for the main individual prizes of the season. The defeat against the Bulls was fulfilled (112-115), but soon there have been many opinions about the morality of the decisionwith veiled criticism of the Mavericks board and Mark Cuban, the owner.
The Mavs season has been one to forget. Always in fits and starts, they reached the West quarters in February, but the signing of Kyrie Irving left the team with what little defense it had and they have reached eleventh place in which they are going to finish, with a 38-43 balance right now. A long way from the Conference finals last year and in a decision that will have clear consequences for the future in terms of the internal structure of the team: what to do with Jason Kidd, renew or not Kyrie and Christian Wood, attend to requests Doncic’s… And with an abrupt end that has seemed bad to many and that can have other types of consequences.. It is what you have. We will see.
