Since we\u2019re in the part of the offseason where there\u2019s not really anything Dallas Mavericks to talk about (I wish I had the juice to cover FIBA, but I do not), I thought I\u2019d poll our commenting fanbase on the origin period of their fandom. And somehow I ended up surprised!<\/p>\n
Of the commenters who are regulars at this point in the off season, it seems that nearly 6 in 10 are what I\u2019d consider \u201cOld School\u201d Mavericks fans. The team was founded in 1980 and perhaps lumping in 80\u2019s and 90\u2019s fans into one is too big a swath, I assumed many of the locals here on Mavs Moneyball would be Diurk guys.<\/p>\n
That we have so many active commenters that are older is actually something I am heartened to hear. Half of our writers are youths, so if you dear readers stick around to give us some perspective on the long arc of Mavericks history, I appreciate that.<\/p>\n
35% of respondants are Dirk-era fans. Another massive swath of people who became MFFLs because of everyone\u2019s favorite German. I fall into this category. It was 2000-2001 where I really got into the team. Catching a team on the rise can be a truly formative experience.<\/p>\n
Then we have 3% each for the Luka era and Flagg era. Anyone Luka Doncic adjacent tha stuck around after Nico traded him is a hardcore fan. I don\u2019t blame those for traveling with Luka, what Dallas did to him will never not be insane. Welcome to the newbie Flagg fans, we\u2019re glad you\u2019re here.<\/p>\n
I have rarely had a post lately where the results surprise me like this, I really did think the bulk of people would be Dirk fans. We\u2019ll be back to Dallas basketball stuff soon enough though, with more than one story eeking out at a time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since we\u2019re in the part of the offseason where there\u2019s not really anything Dallas Mavericks to talk about…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,148284],"class_list":["post-426455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-mavericks-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}