Kyrie Irving | Photo: Dallas Mavericks
The Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA) planned to start “tanking” or deliberately losing games back in March. says The Ringer’s Kevin O’Connor.
It has already been reported that on the night of April 8, the “Mavericks” represented by Dāvja Bertān lost to the Chicago “Bulls” 112:115 in the regular championship game at home, suffering their eighth loss in ten matches and losing the chance to enter the playoffs one game before the end of the regular season. -in” round.
Several regular basketball players were not included in the game, but Doncic spent only 12 minutes and 35 seconds on the court. On the other hand, head coach Jason Kidd admitted that the reason for such team decisions was the desire of the team management to focus on the draft lottery and the opportunities to get a better chance of a good draft choice in 2023. The club was fined 750 thousand dollars for such behavior.
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“Actually, the ‘tanking’ should have started earlier. My sources tell me that in late March, the Dallas coaches met with the players to discuss increasing playing time for Markieff Morris and Jewell McGee. That’s when tanking had to start, but Luka [Dončičs]and especially Kyrie [Ērvings] got angry that the team threw the white flag, and both refused to miss the games,” revealed the journalist.
The Mavericks were fined $750K by the NBA for “conduct detrimental to the league”—aka tanking.
Here’s what I know about Dallas’ situation, who’s to blame, and what needs to change to save the future of Luka Doncic.
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