No, I get what you’re saying and it’s fair. I support the players too. I feel terrible for all of them. But this is beyond the Cowboys and Rangers.
I’ve been plenty frustrated with the ownership and front office of the rangers and cowboys, who have been cheap, stupid, selfish, greedy, myopic and everything else at times. But both of them have always understood the value of their asset came from the fans and the city. That’s why owners talk about stewardship all the time. Because if they don’t, they lose a lot of money.
The Adelson Dumont regime either doesn’t understand that or doesn’t care, but either way, the Mavericks are just a chess piece for them, and they behave accordingly. The value the team has lost (estimated to be on the order of $500-$700mm is a rounding error for them within the scope of Las Vegas Sands, inc.
So effectively, they aren’t the Dallas Mavericks anymore. It doesn’t feel like our team.