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Dallas Mavericks made a franchise decision to improve their odds of landing a top 10 selection in the upcoming draft by executing a tank job against the Chicago Bulls

The slumping Dallas Mavericks were eliminated from play-in contention on Friday one year after the club reached the Western Conference finals

DALLAS — Well, that escalated quickly. Late Friday morning, less than 15 minutes after listing no players as questionable or doubtful for Friday night’s home game against Chicago, the Mavericks suddenly declared that five players will miss the game for rest or injury recovery.

The playoffs are almost here, y'all!

Kyrie Irving? Out. Tim Hardaway Jr.? Out. Christian Wood, Josh Green and Maxi Kleber... well, you get it.

Dallas seems to have hit the tank button with two games remaining.

DALLAS -- The Mavericks and owner Mark Cuban spent the hours before Wednesday night’s victory to the Sacramento Kings recounting past mistakes, facing blame for their playoff spiral, and shooting down one Hall of Fame’s dad’s superstar insults.

After the Dallas Mavericks season is humanly put down, their Superstar Slovenian should go to a Croatian beach for a month, while Luka Doncic’s bosses need to be honest with themselves about his teammates.

Back in October, I wrote about something I figured would quietly become one of the more important story lines in the league: How would the Mavericks—who opted to let highly talented guard Jalen Brunson walk—handle Luka Dončić’s usage rate, which had already been the NBA’s highest in each of the…