I think we all remember the story pretty well by now: DeAndre Jordan, a prized, free agent center, was given the opportunity to be the focal point of a rebuilding Dallas Mavericks team with a culture and pedigree for winning. Armed with a recruiting team of the “Beautiful One” Chandler Chandy Parsons, Mark Cuban and apparently a few cocktails, verbally agreed to sign a max, four-year deal with the Mavs.

He got scared. So, he told his coach. They, in turn, locked him in a room. Order Raising Canes Chicken (probably a three-piece combo) and he re-signed with the Clippers for a lotta cash.

“Home is where your heart is. #WelcomeHomeDJ,” the Clippers official Twitter account said, announcing the signing of Jordan.

Fast forward three years later, Jordan is able to hit the free agent market again by opting out of the final year of a player option worth just over $24.1 million for the 2018-19 season.

Only this time around, he’s 29. Averaging 12.0 points and 15.2 rebounds per contest for, yes, the rebuilding LA Clippers, who are without Chris Paul, Paul Pierce, Blake Griffin and the rest of his loyal compadres from the 2015 offseason that “convinced” him to stay in LA.

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Yes, we can all admit it.

Jordan is everything you’d want in a prototypical center in the modern era of the NBA.

He’s long, athletic, and fits perfectly in the pick-and-roll offense. He’s also a much-improved free throw shooter at 58.0 percent in 2017-18, after shooting just 43 percent from the charity stripe his previous nine season combine.

He also stays healthy. Very healthy, in fact, missing just 11 games over the past six seasons.

So, in need of a center, are the Mavs interested, even without his buddy Chandler Parsons gone from Dallas and unable to persuade him to join the skinny-jeans, big city, bright lights of Dallas?

According to Eddie Sefko of SportsDay, Jordan won’t be an option for the Mavs.

What do you make of this DeAndre Jordan chatter? Would the Mavs seriously be interested?

Sefko: I’ve been told no. While you never say never in the NBA, this would be akin to having your wife leave you with half of everything you own, only to get flirty with you again so she could come back and get the other half of everything you own.

For now, the Mavs will likely key in on either Julius Randle, DeMarcus Cousins or one of the young, free agent big men during the draft.