![]() They also have one black European player, Frank Ntilikina (France). ![]() And all four of the white players on the Dallas’s active roster this season are European: Doncic (Slovenia), Kristaps Porzingis (Latvia), Maxi Kleber (Germany) and Boban Marjanovic (Serbia). This explains some of the racial balance of the current team: European players are usually white and American players are usually black. He believes European players, who usually enter the professional ranks at an earlier age, have a better basketball education than American players. Some argued that the Mavericks should have picked a black superstar, Trae Young, over Doncic in the 2018 draft but Cuban’s preference for European players has a certain logic. Although the Mavericks have a dubious history of toxic workplace culture when it comes to female employees, Cuban has thrown his support behind Black Lives Matter and has appointed a black CEO (Cynthia Marshall), president (Terdema Ussery), head coaches (Jason Kidd and Avery Johnson) and general manager (Nico Harrison) during his time in Dallas. It’s tempting to put this down to racism or at least unconscious bias on the part of the Mavericks and their owner, Mark Cuban. The Mavericks, in the literal sense, do not look like the rest of the league. In more than half of those 15 seasons there were at least four white players, not to mention at least two starting white players. In 15 of the last 21 Mavs seasons, there were three or more white players on the 12-man active roster. Yet one franchise has often kept the dream of mediocre white guys alive: the Dallas Mavericks. It seems every decade, the white NBA player becomes less relevant. I n 2020, the NBA was 74.2% black and 16.9% white.
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