Part of the reason that we write books about lone heroes is because the moral functioning of a society is DULL. It’s bureaucracy and logistics and sending out surveyors to make sure the wells get dug far enough from the cesspool. It does not lend itself well to a three-act-structure.

So the Mavs front office might be ... dismayed that their wtf acquisition got injured right out the gate? Cue a city's worth of tiny violins playing in earnest