{"id":23591,"date":"2025-02-05T02:36:47","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T02:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=23591"},"modified":"2025-02-05T02:36:47","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T02:36:47","slug":"the-cowboys-luka-doncic-and-dallas-7-deadly-sins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=23591","title":{"rendered":"The Cowboys, Luka Doncic And Dallas&#8217; &#8216;7 Deadly Sins&#8217;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"m-detail-header--dek\">Dallas &#8220;made a decision, I don\u2019t know why &#8230; I can\u2019t do nothing about it.&#8221; New Lakers star Luka Doncic said, seeming as puzzled as he is sad.<\/div>\n<div class=\"m-detail-header--flexbox\">\n<div class=\"m-detail-header--meta\">\n<div class=\"m-description--list\">\n<p>DALLAS &#8211;\u00a0Luka Doncic\u00a0is in Los Angeles now, meeting with the media, his Tuesday press conference as a newly-minted member of the Lakers clearly still as shocking to him as it&#8217;s been to all of Dallas, all of the\u00a0NBA\u00a0and really, all of the sports world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody was surprised, so you could imagine how surprised I was,\u201d\u00a0said Luka, reflecting on the still-strange decision from the Mavericks to dump him in a trade. \u201cI was almost asleep when I got a call, had to check it was April 1st.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-b not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-0\">\n<div class=\"m-in-content-ad not-size-a not-size-b not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-0\" data-zone-count=\"5\">\n<div id=\"_adr_abp_container_3\" class=\"_adr_abp_container\" data-section=\"7db9a01170294858359598238868b29f\" data-packetid=\"00000001-681bf0a5-361b-46c3-b9da-3091dc41ae10\" data-render-time=\"1738722076761\">\n<div>AD<\/div>\n<p><iframe id=\"iframe-ad-container-7db9a01170294858359598238868b29f\" src=\"https:\/\/delivery.adrecover.com\/recover.html?siteId=46584&amp;dataDogLoggingEnabled=false&amp;dataDogLoggingVersion=1\" name=\"7db9a01170294858359598238868b29f\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cI couldn\u2019t really believe it at first. It was a shock, a hard moment for me. It was home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There are some parallels &#8211; some funny, some ugly &#8211; between the two big Dallas sports stories of the week,\u00a0the lopsided Luka deal (&#8220;The Herschel Reversal&#8221;) coming on the heels of Jerry Jones&#8217; uninspired decision to hire Brian Schottenheimer as the new head coach of &#8220;America&#8217;s Team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In fact, we say the Mavs and the Cowboys are both guilty of the same &#8220;7 Deadly Sins,&#8221; as we discuss below in the Fish Report. To wit &#8230;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-b not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-1\">\n<div id=\"_adr_abp_container_5\" class=\"_adr_abp_container\" data-section=\"f93a952a73a4c8719dd32e0528f6eee3\" data-packetid=\"00000001-681bf0a5-361b-46c3-b9da-3091dc41ae10\" data-render-time=\"1738722076795\">\n<div>AD<\/div>\n<p><iframe id=\"iframe-ad-container-f93a952a73a4c8719dd32e0528f6eee3\" src=\"https:\/\/delivery.adrecover.com\/recover.html?siteId=46584&amp;dataDogLoggingEnabled=false&amp;dataDogLoggingVersion=1\" name=\"f93a952a73a4c8719dd32e0528f6eee3\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"m-in-content-ad not-size-a not-size-b not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-1\" data-zone-count=\"5\"><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><strong>Sin 1:<\/strong>\u00a0Jerry went &#8220;Cheap over Deep&#8221; in hiring &#8220;Schotty,&#8221; while Mavs GM Nico Harrison (and his ownership bosses) apparently balked at Luka&#8217;s upcoming $345 million supermax contract.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sin 2:\u00a0<\/strong>Jerry didn&#8217;t do an in-depth search of candidates, while Nico inexplicably told only the Lakers about Luka&#8217;s availability, thus robbing Dallas of the chance to &#8220;win the trade&#8221; in a bidding war.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sin 3:\u00a0<\/strong>While Jerry went on a supposed &#8220;solo mission,&#8221; Nico didn&#8217;t tell anybody inside the Mavs organization about his odd top-secret plan &#8211; not even coach Jason Kidd.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-b not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-2\">\n<div id=\"_adr_abp_container_6\" class=\"_adr_abp_container\" data-section=\"a949c511f11a84c1ee0b5e40ffd4273a\" data-packetid=\"00000001-681bf0a5-361b-46c3-b9da-3091dc41ae10\" data-render-time=\"1738722076810\">\n<div>AD<\/div>\n<p><iframe id=\"iframe-ad-container-a949c511f11a84c1ee0b5e40ffd4273a\" src=\"https:\/\/delivery.adrecover.com\/recover.html?siteId=46584&amp;dataDogLoggingEnabled=false&amp;dataDogLoggingVersion=1\" name=\"a949c511f11a84c1ee0b5e40ffd4273a\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"m-in-content-ad not-size-a not-size-b not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-2\" data-zone-count=\"5\"><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><strong>Sin 4:\u00a0<\/strong>The Cowboys stand accused of being, as we like to put it, &#8220;A marketing company that plays football on the side.&#8221; And the new Mavs ownership? They are focused not on basketball, but rather on legalizing gambling in this state and turning part of DFW into &#8220;Las Vegas, Texas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sin 5:<\/strong>\u00a0Jerry lost a chance at doing something different, special, history-making, by not including\u00a0Deion Sanders\u00a0and\u00a0Bill Belichick\u00a0on his final list. And yes, the Mavs lost a sure-bet history-maker in the generational talent of Luka, still just 25.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-b not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-3\">\n<div class=\"m-in-content-ad not-size-a not-size-b not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-3\" data-zone-count=\"5\"><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><strong>Sin 6:\u00a0<\/strong>Jerry&#8217;s Cowboys tend to bury themselves in goofy bumper-sticker cliches, like &#8220;All-In.&#8221; Nico did the same with his lame &#8220;Defense wins championships&#8221; explanation. (Reminder: It was just a few months ago that Luka led the Mavs to the NBA Finals.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sin 7:<\/strong>\u00a0Jerry once passed on Randy Moss. And Moss made it his\u00a0NFL\u00a0goal to punish Dallas for the rest of his career. The Mavs? Watch and see what Luka (and LeBron&#8217;s) Lakers do to the Mavs when they meet. &#8230; it&#8217;s going to haunt like the Yankees&#8217; Babe Ruth haunted Boston.<\/p>\n<p>Why didn&#8217;t Jerry avoid some of these pitfalls? His explanations never quite explained that.<\/p>\n<p>Why did Dallas trade Luka?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey made a decision, I don\u2019t know why &#8230; I can\u2019t do nothing about it,\u201d Doncic said sadly.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-b not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-4\">\n<div class=\"m-in-content-ad not-size-a not-size-b not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-4\" data-zone-count=\"5\"><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<div class=\"m-detail--body-item m-detail--body-item-inline\">\n<figure class=\"m-video mm-video--landscape l-inline\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"U5s_4rCwN1k\" class=\"m-video--frame\" title=\"Fish Report Live: 'Hey, Jerry, Hold Our Beer!' 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Dig into the Fish Report!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas &#8220;made a decision, I don\u2019t know why &#8230; I can\u2019t do nothing about it.&#8221; New Lakers star Luka Doncic said, seeming as puzzled as he is&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hot-news","category-nfl"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Cowboys, Luka Doncic And Dallas&#039; &#039;7 Deadly Sins&#039;.. - 24\/7 News America<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=23591\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Cowboys, Luka Doncic And Dallas&#039; 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