As soon as reports started to rumble earlier this week about DeAndre Jordan — the centerpiece of the Mavericks’ free agency — backing out of his commitment to Dallas, the same question started to crop up:
Should the Mavericks tank?
SportsDay’s Brad Townsend wrote an in-depth piece about the topic in Friday’s paper, where he said it’s hard to imagine the Mavericks being anything but bad next season.
Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, though, appeared to quash any questions about tanking for the sake of earning a better draft pick in an email to Fort Worth Star-Telegram reporter Dwain Price.