Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban used some colorful language to advocate for undrafted rookie point guard Yogi Ferrel to win the NBA’s Western Conference Player of the Week Award after leading his team to four consecutive wins at the end of January.
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Cuban feels rookie Ferrell should have won Western Conference Player of the Week.
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”It’s a mockery within a travesty within a transmogrification that he wasn’t NBA Player of the Week,” he told reporters on Wednesday.
The Mavericks signed Ferrell — who went undrafted in the 2016 NBA draft — to a 10-day contract on Jan. 28. He had previously posted modest numbers in limited minutes on multiple 10-day contracts with Brooklyn.
With Dallas, he scored 28 combined points in two January games, then exploded in February for a 32-point outburst in a win over Portland — a game where Ferrell set a rookie record shooting 9-of-11 on threes, including a game-clinching triple to seal the victory.
Dallas responded immediately by inking their rookie guard to a two-year contract. Cuban responded with a pun.
Ferrell is averaging 17.5 points and 4.3 assists through four February games, and head coach Rick Carlisle has inserted the 6’0 floor general into the starting lineup. Moreover, he’s shooting 50 percent from downtown on the season.
If he keeps pelting teams from distance like he did against Portland, he could be a long-term solution to Dallas’ point guard position.
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