On this date in 1980, the Dallas Mavericks were born as the NBA granted an expansion franchise and in their first season they won 15 whole games. This past season, they upped the total to 24.
In between they created some of the worst, and best, basketball a franchise could deliver a fan base, including Rajon Rondo to Nerlens Noel.
Watching Rondo play for the New Orleans Pelicans in these NBA Playoffs is almost as disgusting as watching Noel eat hot dogs and do little else this season for the Mavericks.
"I have not talked to him, but this stuff with Nerlens I did not see coming," his former college coach, John Calipari, told me in a recent interview.