The Dallas Mavericks Are Making A SHOCKING Decision...

The Dallas Mavericks are making a shocking decision, and honestly, it's got the fan base pretty divided. As we all know, this team has been dealing with injuries ever since training camp, and even after the trade deadline, we still have yet to see this team fully healthy. And when we traded for Anthony Davis, we knew that he was bound to get injured. We traded for Max Christie, who has been playing very well, and we've also traded for Caleb Martin, where we still have yet to see him play, and it's been almost a full month since we traded for him. But in his first game with the Dallas Mavericks, Anthony Davis was playing amazing in that first half. But then in the third quarter, he went down with the injury and he will be re-evaluated tomorrow. But a report yesterday that came out from Shams is highlighting how Anthony Davis and the Dallas Mavericks are planning to sit him out for the remainder of this season. So in this video, we're going to take a look at all those reports surrounding Anthony Davis. Is this something that they should even do? And if so, are we going through a rebuild? How's it going everybody, my name is Marcel Marr and this is Mavericks Digest bringing you the latest news on everything Mavericks related. And before we get started with today's video, we are on Spotify. I know a lot of you guys probably don't want to see this beautiful face every day on YouTube, but instead, if you just follow this page on Spotify, you can listen to this beautiful voice every day. Go ahead, make sure you check it out, give it a follow, and I'd appreciate it greatly. If you've been living under a rock, I'm going to give you a brief overview of what all has happened in the last 30 days since we traded for Anthony Davis, who was coming back from a weird strain. I think it was an adductor strain as well in LA that he suffered, and he was still rehabbing. But on one fateful day against the Houston Rockets, Anthony Davis decided to show us exactly what we could expect, and we got the full Anthony Davis experience. If we take a look right here. In his debut, Andy Davis put up 26 points, 16 rebounds, 7 assists, 3 blocks, he had 2 3-pointers made. And shot 10 of 18 from the floor in just 31 minutes. He was providing amazing offense capability, shooting the three, attacking the paint, but also getting those rebounds, getting blocks, and as well as just holding Alperen Sengun just to nothing in the paint. Anthony Davis showed us really quickly that if he is fully healthy, if this team is ever fully healthy, we are a monster on defense with a lot of different options on offense. But like I said, we got the full Anthony Davis experience. And what is the Anthony Davis experience if it doesn't lead to an injury If we take a look right here, Al Shams had tweeted out that the Dallas Mavericks star Anthony Davis is expected to miss multiple weeks with a left adductor strain. Sources tell ESPN his absence could stretch to a month, and this was right after that game against Houston Rockets, where at first, Anthony Davis tried to play it off, saying it was just a spasm, nothing too serious, I'll be fine. And of course, in Dallas Mavericks fashion, they downplayed the injury until they eventually have to tell us what is going on. At the time, a lot of people were worried that Anthony Davis was going to get surgery, he's going to miss the whole season, he's always getting injured. I've seen the comments on my own videos, you guys calling him Day-to-Day Davis, street clothes, or AD stands for always damaged. And although Anthony Davis, over the last two seasons, have been playing more games, he's been available more often, even in the playoffs. Although that has been true, it was bound to happen. It seems like that he will get injured in Dallas, as it seems everybody's getting injured in Dallas. But yesterday, the report did come out via Shams that Shams on Anthony Davis. He said, I think him, his representatives are going to huddle up. I think they're going to have some very hard conversations. It's not out of the realm of possibility that one game was the last time we've seen Anthony Davis this season. So there you go. It seems like Anthony Davis and his representatives are going to have to have a hard conversation about whether or not it's even worth coming back. To the Dallas Mavericks to even finish off this season. We only have about 19 games left. But this is also because of the fact that Kyrie Irving is out with a left ACL tear. He's going to be gone for at least close to a year. Earliest would be about eight to nine months. But it could stretch up until this time next year. And what would be the point of bringing back Anthony Davis, Daniel Gafford, Dereck Lively, get all these guys back healthy? Or in the case of P.J. Washington, try and rush him back early if Kyrie Irving isn't here. After the trade deadline, it was obvious that Kyrie Irving was the driving force of this team. He was the guy to get everybody going. And we saw that in many games. Kyrie Irving led this team to some very hard-fought wins, even with all these injuries. But the other day when Kyrie Irving went down with that left ACL tear, we knew that he had to get surgery. He's going to be missing out a full year. Even when he comes back, will he even be 100%? A lot of people wondering, is Anthony Davis coming back? And there we have it. It looks like they're going to consider it. And at this point, if they are considering not coming back, you may as well just write him off that Anthony Davis will not return for the rest of the season because there's no point. We are currently the 10th seed only to slide down further in last night's game against the Milwaukee Bucks. I mean, if you take a look, I'm all over the place, but if you take a look at the injury report. We had nine players out. We only have 14 players on our main roster and three two-way guys. Only two of them were available last night. But you got Kai Jones, Caleb Martin, Kyrie Irving, PJ Washington, Jayden Hardy, Dante Exum, Anthony Davis, Daniel Gafford, Dereck Lively. They're all out. Nine players out. It just doesn't really make sense to rush anybody back from injury. It doesn't really make sense to me personally, in my own opinion, should Anthony Davis come back? I don't think so. Give up on this season. We only have 19 games left. You're going to try to fight to stay the 10th seed, lose in the play-in tournament, get even worse odds in the draft coming up. At this current time, the Dallas Mavericks have about a 92% chance of getting the 13th overall pick. Which is pretty good. If no one, if anybody watching this hasn't really been plugged into college basketball, this upcoming draft is going to be pretty deep. If not, every single lottery pick will have a good selection. If not, the whole first round will be good selections. This upcoming draft will be nice. Will the Mavericks get Cooper Flagg? Most likely not with those odds. I think we only have 1% chance of even getting Cooper Flagg. It can still happen. But we don't even have the best odds of that. We are most likely going to be in the middle of the pack, most likely between the 8th and the 13th pick. And that's still a good place to be. At this point, there is no reason to risk further injuries to anyone else to the point where we may be the first NBA team ever to have to forfeit a game due to injuries. It has never happened before. But the way that this Dallas Mavericks team is going, with Kyrie Irving going down with a torn left ACL, with Jaden Hardy not really set to return either. They have no timetable for Jaden Hardy. We'll speak about that. And with Anthony Davis and his team, as well as Dallas Mavericks, considering shutting them down for the season, what would even be the point? At this point, you may as well just let Max Christie, you may as well let O-Max, you may as well let all the young guys, Kai Jones as well, just go out there every night, play starter minutes, get the experience, get some running. We're going to need you next year. O-Max looked very good in the middle of the season. Things have kind of rolled back for him, where Kessler Edwards has been playing very well. Max Christie, as you all know, is the second coming of Kobe Bryant, so more reps for the young disciple would be good for him, as well as Kai Jones, who did miss last night's game. Hopefully, he's available tomorrow. Kai Jones could also use the reps to get used to playing with his team and used to be used to playing with a different cast. I'm a big fan of Kai Jones in his first game. I thought he looked phenomenal for us. But it is really the Dallas Mavericks experience for you to come in, brand new to the team, you play great, you're out now because you're hurt. It just seems to happen. It happened to a lot of our guys. It happened to Anthony Davis, now it happened to Kai Jones. And it's just very, very frustrating. If we take a look at our upcoming schedule, it doesn't really get any easier. And with the, just to round off the month, we have to play the Suns, the Spurs twice, the Rockets, the Sixers, the Pacers, the Pistons, the Nets, the Knicks, the Magic, the Bulls, the Nets again. And a lot of these teams are a lot better than us at this point. The Suns are most likely going to beat us if we don't have at least one of our main guys back. Spurs twice, I heard Victor Wembanyama's out. So maybe Stephon Castle will lead the way. You got the Rockets where they've, They've been losing the majority of their games, but they're still better than us. Sixers, they have no Joel Embiid. They got no Paul George, most likely, so who knows who wins that game. The Pacers have been playing very well. The Pistons have the number one defense in the league. The Nets aren't too bad. The Knicks are still good. They're beating on every team below .500. The Magic are good still. The Bulls have a similar position that we are in the East. And to round it off with the Nets again, it does not look like in this stretch of games we'll able to squeak out one win unless the other team are just sitting out all their best players because they see us on the schedule and realize that's free lunch. The Dallas Mavericks are in a very weird situation, and again, in my honest opinion, if we sit out Anthony Davis, we can get a better draft pick, we can try to give him more time to recover. Hey, he may even go and get that surgery that he's trying to avoid. Go ahead and get it. We're going to go into the summer with whoever's available, try to get these guys ready for next season, and whenever you are fully healthy, whenever Kyrie's ready to come back, then we can actually take things more serious. There's no point in risking further injury, and there's no point in trying to win games that are really just not going to help us in the long run. But before we end this video, we got a new little segment that we're going to do in most of our videos going forward, is Who's That Maverick? As we all know, the Dallas Mavericks put out some weird promo video, some hype video for the fans, and they decided to black out a few players that are no longer on the team. So I thought, why not I do my own version of that as well? But there will be some old Mavericks and some new Mavericks. So in the comment section, let me know. Who is that Maverick? I'll give you a hint. He is still on the team. And that's the only hint that you're going to get. But thank you guys so much for making this far to the video. Make sure to check out our Twitter, Discord, and our Spotify. Links in the description below. Consider becoming a channel member. We are doing giveaway every single month on this channel. Our giveaway will be tomorrow when we do go live. So make sure you're there and make sure you're a channel member. But until next time, y'all take care. 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