The Dallas Mavericks have had an eventful month, to say the least, as they traded Luka Doncic to the Lakers in the middle of the night for Anthony Davis, and have been dealing with intense fan backlash ever since.
We have seen Mavs fans protest outside the arena — some literally brought a coffin with a Mavs logo on it — and some have gotten kicked out from in the arena for calling for GM Nico Harrison to be fired. Making matters even worse is that after citing conditioning concerns as the main reason for not wanting to pay Luka long-term and insisting this was a win-now move, Davis got hurt in his very first game as a Mav and they are just trying to tread water in the 8-seed currently.
For the good folks in the Mavs organization trying their best to do their jobs regarding ticket sales, in-game presentation, and marketing, the last few weeks have been a nightmare, and that was incredibly evident when the team released a new hype video and theme song with Dallas artist Dorrough. The video, clearly shot well in advance of the trade, had to then be edited to include clips from Davis’ one game in a Mavs uniform and edit out some images of traded players Maxi Kleber and Quentin Grimes.
The result is, towards the end of the video below, one of the funniest edits you will ever see as they just completely black out Kleber (not Doncic, as we previously had wrong) and put a big Mavs logo over his head.
To their credit, they do make it seem like it was an artistic choice, but also in an effort to not show some players that were sent out at the deadline.
[Ed. Note: This post previously stated the video was blurring out Doncic, not Kleber and Grimes. We apologize for the error.]
