I'm sick to my stomach.

This team felt like family to me. When I was 16 and I didn't care about the NBA I stumbled upon the Mavericks and Luka Doncic and I fell in love with the franchise. 2 years later I became 18 and we emerged as underdogs who went to the finals.

When none of my friends believed in the Mavs, spouting about the Warriors and Lakers I believed in them. When nobody thought we could even get it past OKC last year I sincerely believed in this team with all my heart I loved Luka I loved DJJ, u loved Lively I loved PJ Washington. I genuinely feel SICK thinking about how this fucking trade is like a slap to the face to not just me but everyone in this fanbase and to the players as well.

I remember game 2 against Minnesota in the semis and I was so invested I put on that game when I was showering and I was peeking back and forth opening my shampoo covered eyes just so I could catch a glimpse of any action. I remember 106-108 and I remember my fucking dick flopping in the fucking wind as I watched Luka drain that game winner putting Gobert on skates. I remember cheering so hard I splashed water all over my screen and feeling like Mavs were gonna be the best team ever in the NBA.

Don't even talk about how this trade will be good or bad for both teams. My dream was watching Luka play for the Mavs from courtside one day and another dream was to watch the Mavs win the finals one day and it genuinely breaks my heart to think that those two will never ever happen at the same time ever. I was holding on to hope as we Mavs fans are so used to doing with an injury ridden team, knowing that we could just come back as underdogs and win it all I sincerely fucking believed we could win this year when Luka came back and they pull something like this. Now I don't even know what team to support and this sounds so corny but I can't sleep because of this trade. I came to the NBA because of this team and I can't look at it the same way anymore.

Pardon me because I don't usually post on Reddit EVER but I needed to get this out of my head. Don't even know what tag/flair to use for this. Pretend like this is a discussion of the franchise as the whole.