Let's check it out Dallas Mavericks fan.
Things may… um, get better in the wake of the trade of Luka Donsic, which crushes the earth. fan Parade co and creatively constructed signs Around their beloved Dark, the statue of Nowicki tries to go to the game, but people are joining outside who have been kicked out of the stadium to scream “Fire Niko” at Jumbotron. It's a humanitarian crisis, Totalitarian regime. By wrapping the entire process before dropping a deal in the middle of the night while the team was on a long road trip, the organization knew that there was a clearly bad response, but they did Did you expect that there would be? Nowitzki himself appears in the Lakers game bad?
Is it a rebellion? No, Nico. It's a revolution.
I feel like a Mavs fan and I honestly don't know if I'll like it anymore Boston Celtics I swapped the first round pick with Bam Adebayo and Jayson Tatum. But things are getting dire here, and the Mavericks' out-of-touch response to a fully-effective freakout of fans question whether the NBA needs honest legal reforms to protect fans I think so. It has no contact and threatens to kick us out of the bang and from the heart.
Absurd press conference introducing their new players There are no GMs who have won them. Completely deaf quote from the owner Patrick Dumont says “I'm Big Luka fan. My family is a big Luka fan. I have a really deep appreciation for what he brings to this team.”… Less than a year after he led them to the NBA Finals, they just traded without warning in the middle of the night. About the man. If they were trying to make this even worse, we don't know what they would do differently. And although I'm not here to fix it, I can certainly make this a little better.
Unfortunately, like an unexempt public relations disaster, we don't have a time machine to go back and solve the problem. But obviously, if any team is considering trading the best player in their mid-20s for a bad player in their 30s… don't. However, the ship has already left the port, sailed to the iceberg, and sank to the bottom of the ocean. So what should we do?
Step 1: Say sorry.
The first step to correcting a big mistake is to apologize. think They cannot do it within two weeks of making the transaction. But that's because they want to be like serious people, but it's possible to apologise and stay serious. You have to fire all those who helped you make the decision, so Nico Harrison, Miriam Adelson, Patrick Dumont. But that can be complicated. Because two people own the team…
Thankfully, you can also apologize without being serious. And we already know that they are not serious people. Apologise, Nico falls for the billionaire owner and moves on. That's a good start.
Step 2 could be a little more material. Once they issue the most confused apology in human history, Mavericks ownership should launch perhaps the most obvious bribery campaign in the world. Free products in all games. Kyrie Bobbleheads everywhere. Hell, Adelson and Dumont should probably start funding public works projects across Dallas. Anything you can do to buy your fanbase, even if it's obvious.
See, I'm not morally into bribery either, but I think getting your fanbase on board is worth a semi-obvious, lasting PR stunt. But there is also a possibility there is nothing Mavericks ownership can be done to fix this in the short term. I don't even know if winning the championship will fix it. This is a humiliation for this team's past, present and future, and a humiliation against the basic laws of nature in the NBA. If so, what can they do?
You can also go into full death parization mode and try to unsuccessfully physically retroactively from Davis by pulling pages from the Lakers book. It's not going well, but it really shows it to the fans. Really Understand how wrong they've done and perhaps gain some goodwill to try.
Or perhaps the answer is to pretend that it didn't all happen. Go into a complete authoritarian mode and rewrite the history book. There was no Luke. There was always Davis. Is the trade mention filled with “what trade”? Or “We're considering it. Thank you for bringing our attention.”
It sounds crazy, but get this. This is the second crazy thing this season. So, as a last resort, I don't know why not.
