Los Angeles Lakers-Superster Luka Doncic does not receive much love from his former team, because the Dallas Mavericks social media team edits the five-fold All-Star Guard in a recent hype video about X.
Dallas Mavericks replaced Luka Doncic with a silhouette and a team logo in their social media -Hype -video
The Mavericks posted a video with different players in the team on Friday, with Doncic apparently replaced by a silhouette and a team logo in short clips (at 1:15 and 1:52 in the video below).
Earlier this month, the MAVS Doncic exchanged the Lakers in exchange for a package with Anthony Davis and a first round of 2029. This shocking trade came a season after Doncic Dallas led to the NBA Finals.
The original video on X was deleted by the mavs on Friday at 9 p.m.
“You can imagine how surprised I was,” said Luka Doncic The corresponding press After the trade. “I had to check if it was April 1. I didn’t really believe it.”
The MAVs could have edited Doncic from the Hype video to concentrate on the active players. Maxi Kleber and Quentin Grimes – who were both taken away before the deadline – are still visible in the video.
Former Mavericks employees Bobby Karalla also added X that hiding former players in videos on social media has been a long -standing team policy:
Former team here! Every year we had to get rid of images of traded players who represent the team in all media as quickly as possible. Social, website, videos, magazines, yearbook, etc. They no longer work there. I know that emotions are still high, but this is nothing of the norm. https://t.co/6c2gsgqphg
– Bobby Karala (@bobbyra) February 21, 2025
Various Mavericks fans continue to boycott games. Three days after the trade, Dallas lost almost a million Instagram followers and dropped the total of the team from 5.3 million to 4.6 million.
According to Rotogrinders, Doncic achieved nearly 400,000 new Instagram followers during that period, while the Lakers saw an increase of more than 185,000 followers since the landing of the five-time All-NBA member.
Fan Backlash continues in the aftermath of the Doncian trade
After the trade, hundreds of fans gathered outside the American Airlines Center to protest and to mourn the loss of their Slovenian superstar. Some supporters even brought a coffin and kept a fake funeral for Doncic’s time with the team.
The Mavericks have also offered refunds to fans who have canceled season cards after the trade.
According to Paul Livergood from WFAA Dallas, there was “at least one seasonal card holder who asked for a ticket annulation and receives a refund, according to an E -mail correspondence between the card holder and a team employee.”
The restitutions are this season for the remaining home games of the Mavericks. Because Dallas had left 16 home games, this regular season at the time of the report, the reimbursement was appreciated at around $ 2,000.
LIVENGOOD also noted that there was a GoFundme started to raise money to buy billboards to let the Mavericks know how upset they were with the Doncian trade. A brewery in the area also started selling a beer ‘selling the team’.
“We appreciate ticket member relationships and repetitions every season to accept phone calls from members with any worries or questions,” said Mavs Vice president of business communication in it in Finegold via SMS.
MAVS Fan issued for collision with Mark Cuban Mulling -Rights store
In addition, Mavericks -fan Chris Taylor, who belonged to the spectators who were cast out of the matchup of 3 February with the Sacramento Kings at American Airlines Center for a heated exchange with minority owner Mark Cuban, TMZ Sports said last Saturday that he was legal action about the incident.
To say it clearly, nothing good for Dallas has disappeared since the trade. Tim Macmahon from ESPN said that the MAVS took the decision to continue with Luka Doncic because of his “constant conditioning problems”, as well as the “imminent obligation” of a contract extension during the low season of 2025.
Doncic was eligible for a five -year extension of $ 345 million in the summer, according to Bobby Marks from ESPN. Instead, the 25-year-old can sign a five-year contract worth $ 229 million with the Lakers.
Despite the return of fans, the Mavericks are still ready to honor Doncic’s general term of office as a member of the organization in the coming months. Dallas is said to plant a tribute video for Doncic when the Lakers travel to the American Airlines Center on 9 April.
