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If, um, what was happening in Dallas wasn't hilarious?

I would probably be sick of talking about it, but it's actually quite delightful. Feed me all of the Mavericks, misfortune.

Feed me all of the drama going on with Mark Cuban.

I just love it. I love the chaos.

I love how completely inept everyone is there, from Mark Cuban to Nico Harrison to Jason Kidd, all the way down to probably the ballboy.

The ball boy probably doesn't even know how to inflate the basketballs for the team. That's how bad it is there.

It's like watching a slightly overweight European train go off the rails as a more slightly overweight owner tries to fix it, but he can't, and he just has to watch in horror.

And if you thought that the last month was entertaining, oh boy, this offseason just got even more spicy, more of a soap opera,

because it's probably going to get worse.

So where do we start?

Well, we talked last episode about how Dallas punted on the season, technically.

And then Luca came out and said, no, that's actually not true.

We're not doing that.

And then more came out and said, no, that's actually not true. We're not doing that. And then more bad things happened.

They deemed a future draft pick more important than trying to make the playoffs, which

was Luca's stated goal.

They said we need to not give the pick to the next, so we're going to do whatever we can to keep it ourselves.

So they tanked in a way that was even more egregious, even more embarrassing, even more obvious than the Blazers, which is kind of crazy.

Because they said the quiet part out loud.

They told everyone. Jason Kidd came out in front of everyone and said,

hey, my bosses are telling me that no one can play tonight

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