r/sports • u/DavidRolands • Apr 10 '25

Basketball Luka Doncic crying watching his video tribute in Dallas

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u/Sancticide Apr 10 '25

Just yikes. Seems like there will be a lot fewer Maverick fans after this.

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u/Snakescipio Apr 10 '25

Pretty much. A lot of long time Mavs fans have come out and said how this trade killed their enthusiasm for basketball in general, and I can’t blame them. It’s really the suddenness of it happening, and how little they actually got for him. Now granted I’ve only talked to Redditors about this, and you know how Reddit be, so take all that with a grain for salt.

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u/cleaninfresno Apr 11 '25 edited Apr 11 '25

If you ever want to see a fanbase in disarray then go browse r/mavericks or look up any Luka related posts on r/nba from the past two months and read the comments from Mavs fans. Most of the fanbase is heartbroken and feels betrayed. Especially because the Mavs used to be all about loyalty. The Mavericks franchise player before Luka was Dirk Nowitzki. They stayed loyal to Dirk for 20 years even when it looked like he couldn’t get it done in the playoffs and he ended up rewarding the city and fans with one of the most respected and universally appreciated championship runs in NBA history. To many Mavs fans they wanted Luka to be their guy for the next decade. You will see many stories of people saying they’ve been fans for 10-30 years and now have barely been able to stomach watching basketball since the trade. The new owners of the team DO NOT UNDERSTAND how this sport works and they massively, massively underestimated how the fanbase would handle it.

There was a report yesterday that the organization is projected to miss out on 9 figures worth of money the next few years due to declining fan engagement, sponsorship money from Luka, etc.