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Mark Cuban knew precisely what was on the line when he pulled the plug on his team’s season in its second-to-last game. At the time the Dallas Mavericks owner ordered his top players benched, the team was clinging to a slim chance of making the NBA’s play-in tournament.That’s significant now that the Los Angeles Lakers and the Miami Heat have gotten all the way to the conference finals through the play-in. Could the Mavericks, with one of the league’s five or so best players in Luka Dončić and a proven playoff performer in Kyrie Irving, have done what the Lakers and the Heat did?Sure, it’s possible, but that’s almost beside the point. There’s something unseemly about an owner ordering a team still in contention to…

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