The site achieved what it was made to do, see Avery Johnson out of Dallas. Add that to the guy I said I’d like to see as coach, Rick Carlisle, most likely getting hired and I think it was a pretty good two month run.

Big thanks to all the regular commenters that really kept the site going. It’s been a blast reading all of your comments. The site ended up getting 23,000 unique visitors from 110 different countries, which is just amazing to me.

I’m going to leave the site up and comments will still be enabled, so feel free to continue chatting amongst yourselves. Be sure to check out these excellent sites for all your Mavericks and NBA news:

DallasBasketball.com

Mavs Moneyball

The Dallas Morning News Mavericks Blog

Hardwood Paroxysm

True Hoop Blog

It’s been fun. Go Mavs.

The Rangers suck. A lot.

It’s embarrassing how bad they are. Just had bases loaded with no outs in the top of the 11th and the Blue Jays strike out the side.

Just pathetic.

Now, back to our regularly scheduled programming…

Fish from DallasBasketball.com had a discussion with Matt Moore from Hardwood Paroxysm and myself about the situation and what we’re expecting to get out of it.

Will Brinson with AOL Sports Fan House vaguely suggests that the reason for all of Cuban’s rule changes about the credentials is because of my request.

Upside down again has a post about the NBA’s reversal of the ban and how Baron Davis’ blog has done nothing but help his standing in Oakland.

Tim MacMahon from the DMN blog has a quick note about my request.

Richie Whitt from the Dallas Observer is writing his article this week about the ban. He also says that so far the number of invitations extended by Cuban can be counted on one hand.

And finally today Mavs Moneyball had a little April Fool’s Day fun this morning.

Want to select “Somebody Else”? Then head on over to our new forum and post who you think that someone else should be. You’ll need to register, but it’s a fairly painless process.

The results of the last one were about what I expected with the yes, no and maybe vote pretty much split. The finals total were:

• Yes, right away – 202
• No! Now shut this site down – 177
• Maybe, depends on how the rest of the season goes – 175
• No, at least not right now – 131
• Yes, but after the season – 89

Since I don’t have as much time to dedicate to this as I’d like I’m looking for someone to help out with some of the writing. So if you’re interested in writing for the site send me an e-mail at contact@fireavery.com with an example article. I’ll pick the best one I get, if any, and give you access to post on the main page. There’s nothing in it for you, just having your posts on the front page.

The site is still a major work in progress. Changes will be made to the look and content on a fairly standard basis over the next few days. If you have any ideas of what you would like to see on FireAvery.com please send them in.

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