11-20-2019, 12:58 AM
Born and raised in Dallas County (Garland actually but I tell everyone I'm from Dallas). Since then I've lived in Iowa, Massachusetts, and now Wyoming. I remember my Dad taking me to Mavs games as early as the Fat Lever days ( I remember him thinking that guys's name was hilarious, so it stuck with me)- so sometime between 1990-1994. Dad wasn't a huge fan, but got tickets through work. The Mavs sucked, but I remember that I still loved the atmosphere at Reunion, and I always remember loving the original logo (still do- bring it back!). With the kids I grew up with, the NBA was huge, but I remember always lamenting that the Mavs were so bad (especially because I remember faint murmurs of them being good in the 80s, which I had no recollection of). When Cuban bought the team, I remember feeling like it was a version of myself getting to own a that team I was a fan of (a dream of mine when I was a kid). Even though he could be an obnoxious a-hole, I always considered him OUR obnoxious a-hole. I vividly remember Calvin Booth hitting that buzzer beater to send us into the second round of the playoffs (for the first time that I was cognitively aware of). I'm slightly ashamed of it now, but I was originally a much bigger fan of Nash than Dirk. I got to go to 3-5 games my senior year of high school with a couple of buddies, one of who's mom got amazing tickets (row J, I think) at AAC through work. Watching Stevie and Dirk, and the atmosphere in the arena, was like a drug. I was hooked since then. 2006 had a horribly traumatic emotional affect on me, but that made 2011 so much sweeter (and I wouldn't trade that 2011 season for almost any memory I have, for a lot of reasons). The Mavs and this board (its previous versions since Yuku) have been there for me as an incredibly useful distraction during some incredibly stressful times, even though most times I was just a lurker. I hadn't had a chance to say it (due to my tendency to just lurk and mostly keep quiet), but thank y'all so much for preserving this thing.
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