Artist erases Luka Doncic 'Please Send Help' mural after Mavs owner calls it 'disrespectful'

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When Preston Pannek attached a mural to the east-facing brick wall of St. Pete’s Dancing Marlin in Dallas’ Deep Ellum, he says he didn’t mean for the work of art to be disrespectful.

But, since the owner of the Dallas Mavericks told him that’s exactly what he thought it was, the artist made drastic changes on Tuesday with a roller and a can of flat black paint.

The mural, that Pannek and his wife Adrienne created in their home studio and then transported to the corner of Commerce and Crowdus to be attached to the outside wall of St. Pete’s Dancing Marlin, showed Mavericks star Luka Doncic surrounded by some of his recent mind-blowing stats including a recent 60-point game, while holding a sign that says “please send help.”

“Ten percent of people are a little bit upset that we might be talking badly about the other Mavericks players,” Pannek said of the social media storm his art work created.

In fact Preston Pannek received emails from Mavs owner Mark Cuban who told him “It is disrespectful. But it’s your choice to do what you want. If that’s the way you want to be a fan. Go for it. Go Mavs!”

“I’m a little confused why a billionaire is messaging me. I thought he’d get the joke,” Pannek said. “I’m gonna let y’all know, if and when I become a billionaire, I will be doing billionaire stuff and not messaging people that are doing art. Just so we all know,” he said, joking.

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