The Mavericks Continue To Troll DeAndre Jordan With This Latest Twitter Photo

The Dallas Mavericks host the Los Angeles Clippers on Wednesday night. You may remember that tension between the recent Western Conference powers reached a boiling point this summer after DeAndre Jordan reneged on his verbal commitment to Mark Cuban’s club in free agency and subsequently re-signed with Doc Rivers and company. The teams have traded barbs through the media ever since, setting the stage for what should be a raucous scene at American Airlines Center.

Just in case the basketball world had somehow forgotten about Jordan betraying them, though, the Mavericks have gone to new lengths over recent days to ensure it would be reminded.

The photo included in Dallas’ tweet above was originally published by Blake Griffin on that fateful July evening the Clippers spent at Jordan’s Houston home. He’d already told Los Angeles of his wishes to return, and a starry Clippers’ contingent surrounded him as midnight, July 9 approached so their high-flying big man would put pen to paper.

Reports indicated that Cuban was frantically driving around Jordan’s neighborhood searching for his house in a last-ditch attempt to change his mind yet again. Just in case the Mavericks owner was successful in locating his teammate’s residence, though, Griffin made sure Cuban wouldn’t be able to reach him.

Funny? Yes. Harmless? Absolutely. In line with the melodramatic nature of the entire Jordan saga? Well, duh. Griffin’s tweet essentially served as the culmination of playful social media interaction from many players and parties involved. A chair isn’t an emoji, but said more than an animated car, rocket, or banana boat ever could.

Dallas would lead to you to believe that its simply continuing the “fun” with tweets like the above. But when is the line between wink-wink amusement and petty grievance crossed? After releasing a parody video of the entire situation last week, that time came for the Mavericks – this is just the latest step they’ve taken past that threshold.

Which is confusing, by the way, considering Cuban’s supposed lack of care for the Clippers entirely. Does Dallas really seem like a franchise that “doesn’t give a sh*t” about Los Angeles?

We’ll see if its fans do when the Mavericks and Clippers tip-off at 8 p.m. EST.

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