Harrison Barnes has a lot more questions to answer

Five words that changed the course of Dallas Mavericks basketball.

A year ago, the Mavericks gave Chandler Parsons the latter of his crude demand and never looked back—but fans did.

Instead, the Mavs offered the max to a fourth option, role-playing, hide-and-seek-in-the-NBA-Finals participant. Harrison Barnes was handcuffed to the exact same deal that Parsons was demanding and later accepted from the Memphis Grizzlies.

Every decision creates another set of “what ifs,” and fans instantly questioned whether the Mavs should have buyer’s remorse about Barnes.

Media types didn’t think he could create his own shot and were openly down on the idea of the signing. Even some of us wondered how he would…