Nico Harrison chose to shorten the Dallas Mavericks’ title contention window in February when he traded Luka Dončić to the Los Angeles Lakers. The Dallas general manager said he believed that with a team built around 31-year-old Anthony Davis and 32-year-old Kyrie Irving,

Kyrie Irving tore his ACL on Monday night and while nobody would ever wish that kind of injury, or any kind of injury, on a player or an organization, it is impossible not to recognize the seemingly cosmic brand of poetic justice that's been going down in Dallas since the dumbest trade in NBA history.