The Spurs are treading water at 12-7, which is good for 3rd in the West. The Mavericks are occupying the basement of the conference at 5-15. Dallas did the right thing by Dirk Nowitski by keeping him in town, but the team as a whole isn’t there right now.
Essentially, the can be boiled down to this quick video that fireballer15 found on reddit.
I love everything about it. The fact that the kid on the right is so excited to show his true colors.