Kyrie Irving's ACL Tear: Impact on Dallas Mavericks

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00:00Kyrie Irving and the Dallas Mavericks.

00:02Ooh, what'd they do?

00:03What'd they do?

00:04They didn't do anything except a torn ACL for Kyrie Irving, who played nine minutes

00:09last night, left the game in tears.

00:12And this franchise, who has gone through Mark Cuban selling the team, I don't know, maybe

00:17he knew something, maybe he was clairvoyant at this point, to Luka Doncic, your hero,

00:22knight in white shining armor, down there in Dallas, trading him over to Los Angeles

00:27to get Anthony Davis, a very good NBA player, who immediately got injured, saying, okay,

00:32we have our big two, Kyrie Irving and also Anthony Davis will carry us through, Kyrie

00:35tears his ACL.

00:38It's March 4th, ACL tears, coming back perfect, probably well over a year, so maybe remove

00:45Kyrie even from next year's version of the Dallas Mavericks and the Dallas Mavericks

00:50organization.

00:51Kevin goes, hey, you know what, before this all happens, by the way, you're going to pay

00:53about 10% more in your season tickets next year.

00:56Hello, Mavs fans today.

00:58Yeah, I feel terrible for Mavs fans.

01:00Like I know occasionally.

01:01No, I actually do.

01:02I know I do.

01:03I understand DRS that you don't because that's just not your style and I'm not taking a shot

01:09at all.

01:10I know that's not your style.

01:14You were in the NBA finals last year and the way the NBA works, a player like Luka Doncic,

01:20you go, all right, we're going to be back here three, four, five more times.

01:26Like that's truly the expectation.

01:29And then boom, he's gone.

01:32And that's rocked a lot of their fans.

01:34Like their fans have absolutely given up.

01:35I don't, I can't even come up with a comparison really that where people be like, oh, okay.

01:43I don't know.

01:44But Buffalo trading Josh Allen, maybe like just being like, ah, I'm not sure this works.

01:49Like what would it be like?

01:50I guess it would.

01:51Like if we're looking at like major trades that just were like so shocking, right?

01:56Like you were too young.

01:57I was not even born at that point.

01:58Like Wayne Gretzky to Los Angeles, like sent shockwaves.

02:02Like Canada was in like disrepair mourning for like months after that.

02:08Like the shining star, our brightest, you know, superstar native born in Edmonton shipped

02:15off to the Kings, not because it made the, you know, the Oilers a better team without

02:20Wayne Gretzky and what they got back was because the owner made bad business choices and had

02:24to sell him to a United States team that would buy him from them, which was horrible.

02:29Like that's like, and again, we're not Babe Ruth to the Yankees.

02:31I come on.

02:32It's 1920.

02:33Like we're not going back to that.

02:34But when you're talking about like trades, Don, I can't imagine a previous one more hurtful

02:39than Don chitch, which you have to go back again to 1988, the best player in hockey history

02:43got traded.

02:44That's how devastating it is.

02:46But the followup Donnie, yeah.

02:49ADS first game through three quarters looked out of this world and you go, you know what,

02:56man?

02:57Like if you're a Mavs fan, Don, you're like, man, let's just rally around this guy.

03:00Right?

03:01Let's, let's rally around this guy.

03:02Let's, you know, let's try and stay always injured already.

03:06All of your worst nightmares around AD, the stuff that surrounded him for his entire NBA

03:11career in game number one, you're like, all right, well, we do still have a pretty talented.

03:17Oh, Derek Lively's already out.

03:20I will.

03:21Hopefully gaffer get, oh, he's out now.

03:22All right.

03:23Well, here's the deal, man.

03:24We got the play in Kyrie's out there.

03:26He's given us like 40 minutes and I, well, PJ Washington's a little banged up.

03:30You have a max Christie's playing.

03:31Well, we might be able to figure this out.

03:33Well, max Christie's coming off the bench.

03:35Why?

03:36I don't know.

03:37Clay's hot.

03:38All right.

03:39Well, hopefully Kyrie can torn ACL.

03:40They are going to miss the playoffs entirely.

03:43They're going to miss the playoffs entirely.

03:45You just said it, Donnie, the Kyrie.

03:48Must be like the most optimistic approach for Kyrie Irving as he is back by next Christmas.

03:54Christmas.

03:55Yeah.

03:56Okay.

03:57So now you're going to do that.

03:58And if you're the Mavericks, Donnie, are you making more all in type moves?

04:02You know, people have, oh, Kevin Durant, that, that, okay, well, what are you, what are you

04:07moving on to make that happen?

04:09And also again, have the Mavericks now put themselves in a position, Donnie, where players

04:14like, I don't know if I want to go there.

04:16I don't know if I want to play as a Dallas Maverick because of the Luca deal.

04:19And now I don't feel like I have any control in my situation, Donnie.

04:24It's very on the board that the team who was last year in the finals led by a 25 year old

04:30phenom have now seen their NBA title window close.

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