{"id":326611,"date":"2023-04-16T13:22:14","date_gmt":"2023-04-16T11:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=326611"},"modified":"2023-04-16T13:22:14","modified_gmt":"2023-04-16T11:22:14","slug":"mavs-originally-intended-to-tank-in-march-but-doncic-and-irving-refused-to-sit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/mavs-originally-intended-to-tank-in-march-but-doncic-and-irving-refused-to-sit\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavs originally intended to tank in March but Doncic and Irving refused to sit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Kevin O&#8217;Connor of Fan Duel TV, the Dallas Mavericks originally intended to tank in March.<\/p>\n<p>Kyrie Irving and Luka Doncic, who both refused to miss any games, opposed the choice.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dallas coaches gathered with players in late March to establish a strategy for Markieff Morris and Javale McGee to play more frequently.<\/p>\n<p>When the club waved the white flag, O&#8217;Connor claims, &#8220;that&#8217;s when the tanking was supposed to start, but Luka and Kyrie were upset and both refused to sit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Mavericks were fined $750K by the NBA for &quot;conduct detrimental to the league&quot;\u2014aka tanking.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#39;s what I know about Dallas&#39; situation, who&#39;s to blame, and what needs to change to save the future of Luka Doncic.<\/p>\n<p>Full episodes of Beyond The Arc every Tuesday on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FanDuelTV?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FanDuelTV<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/URmF0G0N5I\">pic.twitter.com\/URmF0G0N5I<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kevin O&#39;Connor (@KevinOConnorNBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KevinOConnorNBA\/status\/1646923370297163776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 14, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The NBA on Friday levied a $750,000 punishment on the Mavs for their tanking behavior and remarks during their contest against the Bulls on April 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Kevin O&#8217;Connor of Fan Duel TV, the Dallas Mavericks originally intended to tank in March<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":325810,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[92],"tags":[497,156,496],"rumors":[135],"typology":[21],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-326611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-kyrie-irving","tag-luka-doncic","rumors-rumors-nba","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/04\/Luka-Doncic-Mavs.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326611"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=326611"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=326611"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=326611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}