The Mavs have been doomed since last summer, when point guard Jalen Brunson bolted for the Knicks. The league office called Cuban’s descriptions of the play “inaccurate” and said that “in its written submission in support of its protest, Dallas agreed that the referee signaled possession to Golden State.” (The league did admit that “the game officials could have taken steps to better manage this particular situation.”)īut if Cuban is dropping the Dubs game excuse, it's only because he has moved on to a far more embarrassing one.
The NBA won’t replay the last 14 minutes of Warriors-Mavs, and the league office announced Thursday it was rejecting the protest wholesale. “We’ll win it,” he said, “but they just won’t replay it.” (It was theoretically possible that the NBA would order a rerun of the game from the play onward.)Īs it turns out, Cuban was half right. Wednesday night, he admitted the protest was futile. (The Warriors won that game by two points, and the Mavs are now one win outside the play-in tournament.) Despite the referees and Warriors saying that the call was Dubs ball all along, Cuban has been having a slow-motion tantrum about it for more than two weeks now.
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There is his protest of the Mavs' loss to the Warriors last month, in which Golden State got a free dunk because Dallas lined up at the wrong end of the court for an inbounds play.
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