{"id":706868,"date":"2026-04-09T21:03:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T21:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/706868\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T21:03:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T21:03:33","slug":"anthony-davis-discusses-anonymous-letter-given-by-mavericks-fan-after-lakers-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/706868\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Davis Discusses Anonymous Letter Given By Mavericks Fan After Lakers Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"

To say that Dallas Mavericks<\/a> fans weren’t happy about the Luka Doncic-Anthony Davis would be underselling it. There were protests outside the arena, “Fire Nico” chants across the city for months until Nico Harrison was finally fired, and a lot of boos. <\/p>\n

However, they were never upset about having Anthony Davis; they were just upset about losing Luka Doncic for the minimal return they received. Doncic is a generational player entering his prime and had just taken the Mavs to the NBA Finals a few months before, Davis is past his prime, and the Mavs only got one first-round pick because of Harrison’s obsession with Davis. <\/p>\n

One fan wanted to make it clear that the hate Davis was going to hear was not directed toward Davis directly. He told the story on Draymond Green’s podcast this week. <\/p>\n

“I get to Dallas, I check into the hotel, and I go get some food, and I come back, because I didn’t play right away. I get back to the Crescent… they’ve got the little mailing cards that you can write, and it was one under my door. I picked it up with some macaroons on the door handle… I open the door, and I get the letter, and it read, ‘Dear AD, hope you’re liking your time in Dallas. Here in Dallas, we love Dirk [Nowitzki], barbecue, Luka, and the Cowboys. But what we love more than all of that is championships. The boos you’re going to hear are not for you.’ It had no name, nothing.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To say that Dallas Mavericks fans weren’t happy about the Luka Doncic-Anthony Davis would be underselling it. There…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3793],"tags":[7,686,149,4057,166,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-706868","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-mavericks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-mavericks","11":"tag-dallasmavericks","12":"tag-mavericks","13":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116376777757772358","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706868","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=706868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}