DeAndre Jordan reneges on agreement with Mavs, re-signs with Clippers
Here’s the Dallas Morning News reporting on a massively frustrating turn of events for the Mavericks:
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Maybe it wouldn’t hurt so much and set up so many potential ramifications if it weren’t so tantalizingly close for the Mavericks.
Even if you have no love for owner Mark Cuban or his team, you have to admit it’s cruel and unusual the way they lost DeAndre Jordan.
He was poised to become the biggest free-agent acquisition in franchise history. It doesn’t come any closer than having a commitment in hand.
Then, after a hard-fought recruiting battle the likes of which even Michael Jordan never got, DeAndre Jordan on Wednesday evening switched his commitment from the Mavericks and returned to the Los Angeles Clippers, who announced that it was official on a social-media platform sent from the team’s account minutes after the moratorium on free-agent signings was lifted at 11:01 p.m. (CDT) Wednesday. The deal was four years for more than $87 million.
