Six months after the 2011 NBA Championship, eight of Dirk Nowitzki's 14 title-winning teammates remained. By the following summer of 2012, just three were back. When the Mavericks let Shawn Marion walk away after the 2013-14 season, Dirk was alone. In the span of 30 months or so, a championship team was reduced to just the one man who had been in the middle of it all.
The Mavericks' philosophy from that point on had been critiqued and discussed and argued over and yelled about. It might have broken up a marriage or two, if one side thought it was justified and the other didn't.