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[SleepingHero]

We can see a clear pattern with Mavs that most of their break-ups end on a negative tone. Always some info leaking from Mavs how a certain GM, coach or player was bad. This trend was similar in previous and current leadership.

Just want to say this isn’t a “mavs” pattern. This is an NBA pattern. Every team does this when they lose a player more often than not. It’s the most classic playbook to explain to your fan base why you moved on from a player and it covers the franchise from looking weak. 

 Mavs are guilty of it. Heat, Spurs, Denver. Hell the Lakers PR job on Westbrook is one of the worst of all time. Celtics have done it. Etc. 

Sometimes the teams have a good case, other times they don’t. In Woods case I think the Mavs were justified. As they were with Rondo and Odom. But in others for sure they were wrong, like Luka. And everyone saw through that.

I do hope though the Laker fan base and media continues to love Luka because if you think what the Mavs did is bad, you’ll really see what Hollywood can do for narratives.