In Dallas, Texas, there’s only one thing the fans want: to get Luka Doncic some help. All season long, and really since Luka arrived, he’s been on an island out there as the only true star of the team.
Luka himself has proven he’s good enough to win some playoff series, but asking him to win the title with a bunch of role-players may be too tall of an order for even him to fulfill.
Obviously, when talking about the roster and what the team has done to surround Doncic, the blame can only be pointed at the front office and ownership — and it seems the fans in Dallas agree.
Last week, a mural of Luka went viral that featured some of his recent stat lines and the words ‘please send help’ stamped as a message directly to the front office.
A Luka Doncic mural has appeared in Dallas…
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— Legion Hoops (@LegionHoops) January 14, 2023
It’s an impressive bit of work that echoed the feelings of many Mavericks fans across the world. As special as Doncic is, he deserves to have a guy he can rely on to deliver other than himself.
Mavericks Governor Reportedly Labels Luka Mural As ‘Disrespectful’
While the Luka mural was a great thing for fans, team owner Mark Cuban was less than pleased with the work. In fact, according to the latest report, Cuban even sent an email to the artist (Preston Pannek) and called out his fandom.
The painting shows Doncic holding a sign over his head that reads, “PLEASE SEND HELP,” with some of Doncic’s recent astonishing stat lines surrounding it. It’s a sentiment that many Mavericks fans have expressed this season. However, not everyone is happy with the artwork, most notably Mavericks’ governor Mark Cuban.
“It’s disrespectful,” Cuban wrote in an email to Pannek, which the artist shared with Mavs Moneyball. “But it’s your choice to do what you want. If that’s the way you want to be a fan. Go for it.”
Pannek says he has been a die-hard Mavs fan since 2000. His concern is that the front office isn’t doing everything possible to build a championship contender, and he doesn’t want to see Doncic’s talent squandered. So, when Cuban reacted that way after he reached out to him, Pannek said he was taken aback.
“I find it an odd way that he handled the emails the way that he did,” Pannek said. “He could have easily just invited me down to a game and talked about this if he was really that upset that he seems to be. But he took it a different way.”
Needless to say, the situation is complicated in Dallas right now. After letting Jalen Brunson go for nothing, the Mavs don’t have anything close to a co-star for their franchise guy.
In truth, it’s hard not to think of this season as a wasted opportunity for the Mavs, which is exactly what the muralist was trying to expose with his bold artwork.
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