James Mauro

Luka is the best player in the league.

@CrosbyMaxx We love you Maxx. Thank you brother.

RIP To My Brother Josh Mauro… Love You Forever Family. 😔🕊️

We’re losing way too many, way too young. Rest in Peace Josh. 🙏🏻

@JJWatt Thank you JJ that means a lot to us.

@adrian_wilson24 Thank you for your words AW.

Prayers go out to Josh Mauro and his family. Had the opportunity to be around Josh for several years with BA. Always in shape, always was ready to go wherever he got that call. One of the things I respected most about him. You could depend on him

@BaylorSouthard Fresh off the press, sweet jersey.

“Loyalty Never Fades” & “Mavs Fan For Life” How the mantra of a community for the last 27 years was murdered in its sleep: The Dallas Mavericks were never just a sports team. They never felt like a “Big Market Team” even when they technically were. The franchise was built on loyalty, respect, and an owner who once treated the players and fans as if they were family. There was a time when @mcuban wasn’t just the owner or a figurehead, but a hardcore fan who poured his passion into this organization. Recently Cuban sold the team, not because he was in financial trouble, or because he couldn’t afford to keep running the team. He sold it to be greedy and guised it under the idea of “easing the pressure on his kids”. He sold the Mavericks to partner with the Adelsons and get his hand in the cookie jar of real estate development and casinos. He simultaneously sold his soul to the Democratic Party and turned into a Rachel Maddow look-alike. He relinquished GM duties to a shoe salesman in what most fans assume was a pre-meditated act that lead to the events that transpired this week. In the middle of the night the casino moguls and the shoe salesman traded away the heart and soul of a community for reasons that can’t possibly pertain to basketball. They didn’t get the best offer possible. They didn’t make any other teams aware of the dealings. They didn’t give their franchise player a warning. They didn’t give their loyal fans a chance to prepare. Instead they opted to shop him to one team for what will go down as the most embarrassing franchise altering trade in the history of sports. The slimy shoe salesman didn’t just destroy the mantras, he proceeded to leak destructive details about Luka Doncic in an effort to make himself look better. The DFW metroplex in its entirety was furious about the trade. In a Cowboys city, Luka Doncic was the face of Dallas. Not Dak Prescott, not Micah Parsons, but Luka Doncic was the most popular player in the history of this town. I’ll even put him up against the Super Bowl Dynasty Dallas Cowboys players like Troy Aikman and Emmitt Smith. Protests, season ticket cancellations, it was organizational suicide in every essence of the word. People saying they didn’t know the fall out when they made the deal are naive, stupid, or both. These snakes knew EXACTLY what they were doing. This morning the Charlotte Hornets got more draft capital for Mark Williams than the Mavs got for Luka Doncic. Further insult to injury. This isn’t a bump in the road but rather a generational blockade for Mavs fandom. There are kids literally in tears in homes all across DFW. There are grown men who are otherwise reasonable losing sleep over a player being traded. Sports represent hope. And once in a generation there is a player that captures the love of an entire city in ways unfathomable to most fan bases. Luka Doncic in that way was Michael Jordan, he was Kobe Bryant, he was Tom Brady. There’s one constant between those 3 iconic players… their organization NEVER abandoned them. Their city NEVER abandoned them. This is the most destructive trade to a fan base in any sport in the history of the world, not just this country. Luka Doncic being sent out isn’t just losing a player, they shipped the entire Mavs fanbase out with him. There is no more loyalty. There is no more MFFL. They destroyed an entire franchise in the dead of night… and they did it so ruthlessly that it had to be the plan all along despite the consequences.

@MFollowill @SportsSturm All we can hope for is a few more years home after his tenure in LA. Nico will be an AD for Plano ISD by then. This is the bargaining stage of grief.

@SportsSturm You have to have at least 8 years in the league and at least four with your current team to have one

Basketball has very, very few no trade clauses.

@DusanTratar @MavsFilmRoom Gotta catch these guys in their prime at 33 🔥

@MavsFilmRoom Long term move. 3-4 years ✅

Quentin Grimes is 24, Caleb Martin is 29. I wouldn’t say Martin is really any upgrade over Grimes either. Mavs are quickly becoming one of the oldest teams in the league.

@dallasmavs @AntDavis23 I think he won district in junior high & was a quarter finalist in the state finals in HS. You left that out. Oh & he was the tallest 4th grader.

@BiasedSlightly We’re baaaccckkk

i actually like this trade quite a bit

@brendon_wm @Gallosavedme There’s no business or franchise in the world that has monumental decisions constructed & implemented by one person. This was gross negligence & malpractice on all fronts & can only lead one to believe there’s an ulterior motive outside of simply “improving” the Mavs.

@James_Mauro @Gallosavedme “But he’s a CHRISTIAN” Dude’s a snake and it’s been a long play because he wants the credit. Hope he and ownership’s days are numbered. Preferably single digits.

@brendon_wm @Gallosavedme But dude he reproduced & is married?? This snake strategically removed Luka’s confidants thru the years to ultimately move Luka for pennies. He will never be remembered in a good light & his family will suffer bc of his envious motives. Why else would he hate Luka & co?

@Gallosavedme Thank you for the reminder. I respectfully hope all of his great grand children remember him as the arrogant asshole who burned down a franchise and traded one of the greatest players in the history of the game because he’s a power hungry bitch that works in the shadows.

@KevinGraySports I’m holding onto the belief that Luka will return & win here after his tenure in LA. An unnecessary breakup. Nico will be long gone.

Luka Dončić is one of the few athletes who makes you FEEL something when he plays If you love him or hate him, he elicits a reaction; that’s why fan reaction has been so intense…he’s a genuine performer who has that rare quality and Mavs fans connected to that, now they can’t

@Lakers @luka7doncic So good like you would never trade him & a 2nd rd pick for a 32 year old big (who has missed 25% of career games) & a single 1st rd pick right? That would be insane.

25 years old with quite the resume 👀

@MFollowill @MavMom71 How can anyone with an ounce of common sense & integrity invest so much in this team or league again? We’ve been fooled. It’s all a show after all. Disgraceful & shameful. The pain has now turned into embarrassment. This is criminal & unforgivable. Signed a #MFFL

@MFollowill @MavMom71 1 person just destroyed a life-long support of millions by trading away a once in a lifetime, mythical, never seen before, transcending player for crumbs. No checks & balances, just went rogue & colluded with the corrupt market that is LA & the NBA.

Today @bdameris and I did a Take Dat Wit You episode. We're shocked and sad like y'all and we wanted people to know your feelings are understood. Plus we haven't really just had the chance to say what a privilege it was to call Luka's games and how special it was to connect with people all over the world as a result. Today's podcast was also a little step forward and we look forward to each of our game broadcasts tomorrow being one also. If you're in the head space to check out the pod, cool. If not, understood. As always Brian, myself, the broadcast crew and the @MavsStudio41 guys appreciate y'all. youtu.be/vUynJsDjEUQ?si…

The more it sets in the worse it gets. Forgive my privilege but this is going to be a long battle. #MFFL ??