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Driving home, listening to The Hardline, I had to hold back a gullet full of barf.I'm a noted unfan of Corby Davidson. Frankly, he sounds like a dick. But that's me. I turn the channel when I need to, tolerate the other times.
Yesterday, while discussing the Dallas Mavericks' recent struggles, he essentially shrugged his shoulders and stated that no matter what happens this season, it doesn't matter. All that matters was last spring when the Mavericks won the NBA title.
This is the dumbest shit I've ever heard. Sounds like shilling for his BFF Mark Cuban. To be honest with you, it's frontrunner, Dallas Cowboy talk. It's the talk of a guy that didn't give a shit about any team unless they were winning a championship.
I would assume if Davidson actually read all of this, or if it were said to his face, he'd act incredulous, defiant and regale us with bullshit rhetoric of being a lifelong fan and all this crap. That is fine. Davidson is not alone in this mindset.
Still, to simply rest one's laurels on a championship, no matter how glorious and magical, is stupid and so shortsighted. It's foolish.
I think what most fans and most media wanted from the Mavericks, post-championship, was to slowly descend gracefully into the annals of the NBA: Come out in the shortened season guns blazin' and take one last good swipe at a ring. We know that Dirk, JET and Kidd won't play forever. But we wanted, for one more season, to see this thing play with pride and play with high standards.
Instead, management stripped this team of its heart (Tyson Chandler) and set its sights on 2013 and 2014. You might say it's dumb to blow money on Chandler (oft-injured, expensive) for the sake of the short term. Then again, wasn't that the whole point? Why else do you really keep Dirk, JET, Kidd, Shawn Marion Vince Carter and others around? If the Mavericks were thinking from a financial point of view in getting enough space for Deron Williams and Dwight Howard and others, don't you just clean house, Dirk included?
Certainly not. Dirk's here because of the 13 years of work and sweat that guy poured for every fan in this area. He's here because of sentimentality.
We sit here and pretend that Kidd, Brendan Haywood and Delonte West are the reasons the Mavs are struggling. No. It's Chandler. He meant the world to the Mavericks last season.
One championship is never good enough. Don't believe me? Ask fans of the Dallas Cowboys. I rooted for that team in 1992 and when they won the next year and two years after that, it, quite simply, never got old.
Maybe it did for fans like Davidson. Maybe it was all enough in 1992. For fans like that, I have no use. They don't feel for the game -- no matter the sport -- like I do and so many others do too. Fact is, the Cowboys have won one playoff game in 15 years and fans are about to go apeshit crazy if things don't change. You can't tell me that 1995 doesn't seem like a million years ago. And you can't tell me that every Cowboys fan from the 1990s doesn't miss those days, no matter if there were three rings.
The idiocy continued, and spread on the Hardline. Once Davidson received a taunting Tweet from a San Antonio Spurs fan, he and producer Danny Balis began to run down the Spurs saying they would trade the one Mavericks title for the four Spurs titles. They insinuate that what the Mavericks went through to get their one was more significant than what the Spurs went through.
The. Dumbest. Fucking. Thing. Said. Ever.
This is why no one likes you and no one likes Dallas.
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