Justin Verrier

Maybe not the Jazz, but you can make the case at the very least, like these teams didn't intend to be bad.

They just ended up being bad.

I guess that's a comfort.

Yes.

But let's talk about the Dallas Mavericks, a team that didn't expect to be bad going into the season.

I think they had high hopes that they would go quite far in the postseason based on some of the trades they made last season.

What's interesting about Dallas is I feel like every two or three weeks I look up and Mark Cuban's on another podcast, which who could blame him?

There's a lot of them out there.

But he has really gone on a media blitz, unlike anything I have seen in recent NBA history, to completely divorce himself from the fact that he knowingly got off of the team ownership.

He dealt that to somebody else.

And then they did whatever they wanted with the team and broke up his beautiful construction and traded Luke out.

And I get it because clearly he's affected by that and he didn't see this coming.

On the other hand, like once you sell a team to someone, you're kind of left to whatever they want.

That's kind of how this works.

It just seems like he's completely blindsided that.

But I think the thing that's jumped out to me about this most recent one, one is that he threw Jason Kidd under the bus.

And two, I'm looking at this from an outsider's perspective, thinking like, oh, everyone else is pretty sick of this Mark Cuban tour as well.

But it seems like when you check in with Mavs fans, they're like,

Go get J. Kidd like they're back to sharpen the sickles and ready to bury Cuban.

And excuse me, a kid and anybody else underneath the Dirk statue outside the arena.