{"id":422299,"date":"2023-04-09T14:51:26","date_gmt":"2023-04-09T14:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=422299"},"modified":"2023-04-09T16:43:22","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T16:43:22","slug":"mavs-wont-get-away-with-this-nba-opens-an-investigation-against-dallas-mavericks-after-apparent-tanking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/mavs-wont-get-away-with-this-nba-opens-an-investigation-against-dallas-mavericks-after-apparent-tanking\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavs Won&#8217;t Get Away With This: NBA Opens An Investigation Against Dallas Mavericks After Apparent Tanking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mavs.com\">Dallas Mavericks<\/a> were eliminated from playoff contention on Friday night after losing to the Chicago Bulls, and just when you thought things couldn&#8217;t get any worse for them, you learn on Saturday that the NBA is looking into how the Mavs handled the game.<\/p>\n<h2>Mavs Won&#8217;t Get Away With This: NBA Opens An Investigation Against Dallas Mavericks After Apparent Tanking<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;The NBA commenced an investigation today into the facts and circumstances surrounding the Dallas Mavericks\u2019 roster decisions and game conduct with respect to last night\u2019s Chicago Bulls-Mavericks game, including the motivations behind those actions,\u201d NBA spokesman Mike Bass said in an official statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough the game officials could have taken steps to better manage this particular situation, that did not provide a basis for the extraordinary remedy of upholding a game protest,\u201d the league said in an official statement.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NBA has launched investigation into Dallas\u2019 roster decisions in last night\u2019s Bulls-Mavs game and the motivations behind those decisions <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WV8oVOrs54\">pic.twitter.com\/WV8oVOrs54<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/1644785296775544832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Jason Kidd, the head coach of the Mavericks, accused Mark Cuban of choosing to waste the season and said that league commissioner Adam Silver may use him as a lesson to deter others from tanking in the future.<\/p>\n<p>When his player shot two terrible bricks that would have knotted the game at the buzzer during Dallas&#8217; defeat to Chicago, Cuban was observed laughing on the sidelines. Dallas Mavericks had blown an 11-point lead in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The NBA has launched an investigation into the Mavericks\u2019 \u201croster decisions, game conduct and motivations\u201d behind the Mavs-Bulls game last night.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espn_macmahon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@espn_macmahon<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3oygkUQOJq\">pic.twitter.com\/3oygkUQOJq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Legion Hoops (@LegionHoops) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LegionHoops\/status\/1644780020794298368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Benching the rest of their front-line players, and all but retroactively attempting to bench Ro Blackman, Derek Harper, Mark Aguirre, and Jim Spanarkel. The investigation against Mavericks was pretty much what was expected!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Yes, Dallas was inelegant in how it rolled out its obvious intent to tank. Yes, the result was embarrassing.<\/p>\n<p>No, it does not merit an investigation, writes <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidaldridgedc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@davidaldridgedc<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tanking is never easy. But sometimes it&#39;s necessary in small doses.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lumU7Pc48z\">https:\/\/t.co\/lumU7Pc48z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Athletic (@TheAthletic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAthletic\/status\/1645055753575702530?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 9, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>If games aren&#8217;t played fairly, whether it&#8217;s to settle a bet or get a franchise player a winning lottery ticket, it discredits the sport.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CmNo9ux7rzI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE-\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/nba\/\">NBA \u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/nfl\/\">\u00a0NFL \u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/mlb\/\">MLB\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dallas Mavericks were eliminated from playoff contention on Friday night after losing to the Chicago Bulls, and just when you thought things couldn&#8217;t get any worse for them, you learn on Saturday that the NBA is looking into how the Mavs handled the game. Mavs Won&#8217;t Get Away With This: NBA Opens An Investigation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":269657,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,51],"tags":[6644,6645,6678,6679,6646,6680],"class_list":["post-422299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dallas-mavericks","category-nba","tag-mavericks-news","tag-mavericks-tanking","tag-mavericks-tanking-investigation","tag-mavericks-tanking-investigation-nba","tag-mavs-tanking","tag-nba-tanking-investigation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}