Mavs Fans Held A Protest, Complete With A Fake Funeral For Luka Doncic, Outside Of American Airlines Center Before The Mavs Played The Rockets

I don't know what to say about all this other than God bless America. I can't imagine George Washington envisioned the country he was fighting to create being a place where a guy in a giant chicken suit wearing the basketball jersey of a Slovenian could peacefully demonstrate his unhappiness with his local NBA franchise. In fact, chicken outfits, basketball, and Slovenia weren't even invented when GW was putting the whole country on his back. But I guarantee he would shed a tear of joy seeing all this being possible after he figured out what was going on, which would take no less than a full year if his brain didn't explode first from seeing what life is like in the 21st century.

No matter what you thought of the Luka trade, which was at best a massive underselling of a superduperstar about to hit his prime and at worse straight up collusion, everyone feels terrible for Mavs fans. Well, almost everyone since I'm sure rival fans have been bathing in their tears for the last week, which is perfectly embodied by this tweet.

But watching your team trade away one of the best players in the league in his mid-20s who didn't show any signs of wanting to league must fucking suuuuuuuuck and I love that Mavs fans are bringing the fight to their teams door instead of putting up a billboard or flying a plane with a sign. It's also hard to feel TOO bad for Mavs fans considering they got to experience winning a championship against a legendary team where the whole country was rooting for them in an epic Finals, the fact Luka getting to them in the draft required multiple teams fucking up along the way, and that fans of other teams will go their whole lives without a player as good as Luka on their team. 

Nonetheless, I appreciate Mavs fans going over the top in their reactions to the most shocking trade in sports history.

Also the wildest part of all this is that the Mavs didn't cut Luka or get back pennies on the dollar. They simply completely undersold their perennial MVP candidate by not establishing a market for him that would've led to a bunch of picks to go along with a star but still got back one of the 10 or so best players in the league that makes them contenders, even if he is older and has had more injury issues than they young stud they traded, with that player putting in WORK right after those protests happened.

UPDATE: Oh no.