It’s that time of year, and the Dallas Mavericks are ready to get the season underway.
So far, it’s a been an okay start; at .500, 2-2, with their last victory was over the hated rival San Antonio, beating them 95-81.
Didn’t watch or know that they were playing the other day, due to the ’08 Presidential Election, with Barack Obama winning. [So dang happy that night; history in the making.] So basically the Mavericks were the last thing on my mind, sorry to say.
During the off-season, Dallas brought in former ESPN analyst, ex-Pistons and Pacers’ coach Rick Carlisle. He’s coached in an NBA championship before, so he should know how to right this ship here in Big-D and actually let us finish a championship run unlike the falter we had with Miami in ’06.
Yeah, the Mavericks did blow a 13 point lead with 6:38 left in the 4th quarter in Game 3; never forgetting that.
Although at the same time, all of us Mavs fans know that the refs had something up their sleeves, some way, some how, to fix that series. I still think the league commissioner, David Stern, should go back and get those officials responsible for calling those sissy calls in Dwyane Wade’s favor.
If you’ve been watching the NBA closely as I have with David Stern as the commissioner, you know absolutely nothing’s going to happen, because he’s just scared of losing money and losing respect among his peers and colleagues around the league.
Basically, it’s all about himself and not about the NBA as a whole. In a business, I’m sure you’d have to have those kind of risky gambles here and there, i.e. big bossman himself, Mr. Jerry Jones.
Coming together collectively on a task at hand would be beneficiary for all to become better business people, and I’m really wanting a better head guy in front than Stern.
[Sorry about going off topic from the Mavs, to Commissioner Stern; it’s just been still, to this day, bugging me about how the whole situation was handled.]
*I’m hoping some day Mark Cuban actually gets the chance to raise the Larry O’Brien trophy along with the team and sock it to Stern; just to make up for all the fines he’s collected from him, costing over $1M total.
Only time will tell.
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