{"id":699348,"date":"2026-04-05T09:46:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T09:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/699348\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T09:46:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T09:46:56","slug":"sb-reacts-mavericks-fans-and-the-final-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/699348\/","title":{"rendered":"SB Reacts: Mavericks fans and the Final Four"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week\u2019s Dallas Mavericks centeric poll centered around the NCAA Men\u2019s Final Four. Yes there\u2019s still plenty of NBA basketball on (and perhaps you could and should go make a wager on NBA Rookie of the Year<\/a>, now that Cooper Flagg has potentially recaptured momentum), but I think most of our fans are thinking ahead to the NBA Draft lottery and the draft itself.<\/p>\n

Which means you\u2019re considering prospects. And if the lottery goes chalk, there are a lot of guys playing this weekend that Dallas might consider. The first question asked about guards and who you were going to follow on Saturday and\/or Monday.<\/p>\n

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This is within line of what I expected Keaton Wagler is a late riser and some that\u2019s easy to get excited about when you watch his game. Brayden Burries is probably a safer pick given his skillset, but hes very exciting. I assume we have some UConn fans taking the poll as Braylon Mullens doesn\u2019t do it for me.<\/p>\n

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The next question was about Final Four Big men. There were others I could\u2019ve chosen, but these three seeemed to be the most well known.<\/p>\n

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I have to hope Mavs fans are watching Yaxel Lendeborg because he\u2019s on a good team. I would be very upset if Dallas drafted a guy that\u2019s four years and two months older than Cooper Flagg. Koa Peat is an interesting player, I\u2019m not sure what he\u2019s good at. Krivas is a wishlist guy for me, with that second first-round pick or a trade-up.<\/p>\n

Then we get to these questions from the national poll, which you can also sign up for.<\/p>\n

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The first poll centered around the East\u2019s Play-In teams. It seems that fans do not believe in any of them. A reasonable take.<\/p>\n

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This second question was asked before Luka Doncic got hurt. I think it\u2019s too low. The awards are going to end up with weird ballots that don\u2019t tell the story of the year. It\u2019s silly.<\/p>\n

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This one\u2019s also weird. Not sure why 6 in 10 fans think the NBA can incentivze differently than what\u2019s already been done. Teams that want to lose will find a way to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week\u2019s Dallas Mavericks centeric poll centered around the NCAA Men\u2019s Final Four. Yes there\u2019s still plenty of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,225,149,42824,87843,368,36982,6,446,12,249,87842,3549],"class_list":{"0":"post-699348","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba-draft","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-cooper-flagg","10":"tag-dallas-mavericks","11":"tag-keaton-wagler","12":"tag-krivas","13":"tag-luka-doncic","14":"tag-mavs-fans","15":"tag-nba","16":"tag-nba-basketball","17":"tag-nba-draft","18":"tag-nba-draft-lottery","19":"tag-uconn-fans","20":"tag-yaxel-lendeborg"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116351471066527313","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}