As with pretty much anything that hits the Internet, even if it's deleted, it doesn't mean it's gone.
Ty Lawson knows that.
His last basketball-related words as a Nuggets player could be a simple, fateful phrase.
"I wish."
Last week on Instagram he was asked by a Dallas Mavericks fan to come play for Dallas. His reply: "I wish."
Lawson soon after deleted the post, but the damage was done, the contents already burned into the heads of Nuggets fans.
And, most important — or unfortunate, depending on your point of view in this one — it was burned into the organization's head.