Friday's Play-In loss has the Mavs now reflecting on their franchise-derailing trade and the calamitous sequence of events that followed.

"The Mavericks say GM Nico Harrison will hold his expected end-of-season press conference Monday," Stein said. "Yet that does make you wonder (again) why Tuesday’s press event with an invite-only selection of reporters (and no cameras) was needed.

Dallas owned a 26-23 record before general manager Nico Harrison made the shocking decision to trade superstar Luka Dončić to the Los Angeles Lakers in exchange for a package centered around Davis. Fans and pundits called out Harrison during the Mavericks' postseason exit.