The Dallas Mavericks have endured arguably the most brutal month of any team in NBA history, as the team traded Luka Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers and then saw Anthony Davis and Kyrie Irving go down with serious injuries not long after. The odd man out amid all the chaos has been Klay Thompson, who signed with the Mavericks this past offseason in hopes of competing for a championship but now finds himself playing alongside a Motley crew of unproven role players as the season winds down.
Recently, Thompson’s father and former NBA player Mychal Thompson spoke on what his son is currently experiencing in Dallas.
“Klay is stuck in purgatory right now,” said Thompson, via ESPN Los Angeles on X, formerly Twitter. “And if they hang on to the tenth seed, that will be the story of the year in the NBA, because I think they’re going to lose ten in a row.”
A disastrous stretch for the Mavericks
Even before Irving went down with an ACL injury in Monday evening’s home loss to the Sacramento Kings, things were looking as dire as they have in quite some time for the Dallas Mavericks.
The fanbase was still brimming with rage over general manager Nico Harrison inexplicably trading Klay Thompson to the Los Angeles Lakers, and Anthony Davis–the key part of the return package in that deal–had already gone down with injury.
In order to justify the Doncic trade, the Mavericks likely would have had to win championships in each of the next two seasons. Now, that is for all intents and purposes no longer a possibility with Irving’s injury, and it’s worth considering now whether the team would even want to bring Davis back this year, given how dire the straits have become.
One has to feel for Klay Thompson, who had a good game on Wednesday against the Bucks but wasn’t nearly enough to keep the Mavericks from losing the game by 30 points.
Things don’t get any easier from here for the Mavericks, who host the Memphis Grizzlies on Friday.
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