In a barbershop, no topic is brushed off.
“They cheated us last night,” customer Filmore Downs remarked from his barber’s chair. “Luka fouled out. We all know that last foul wasn’t a foul.”
At Graham’s Barber College in Fair Park, emotions ran high following the Dallas Mavericks’ defeat.
“I’m not going to lie, I was a little mad,” barber Jeremiah Allen admitted.
“I feel sick,” added Downs. “It’s sickening. It hurts. It’s like being sold a dream.”
They also had strong opinions on where the team’s issues lie.
“The question is, can Jason Kidd coach us through it?” Allen pondered. “We’ve been struggling.”
“In the first and second quarters, we come out strong,” Downs analyzed. “We’re on fire. We can’t be stopped. But then halftime comes, and I don’t know who we’ve got. It’s like we’ve got a high school JV team.”
Downs delivered a straightforward pep talk for the team.
“We’re the Dallas Mavericks,” he asserted. “We’ve done this before. We can do it again. The whole city is behind you. The whole city.”
