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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. I couldn’t do it. The music died on Sunday and I don’t know when or if I’ll be able to watch an NBA game again. This is the lowest moment I have ever experienced as a fan. Utter, complete, shock and betrayal.
  2. I’m not a Republican and I live in Texas. I don’t have to imagine
  3. This is like saying there’s no way a Nuclear Holocaust could have actually happened in 1983 because Stanislav Petrov was there to prevent it. Tell me more Pangloss, about this, the best of all possible worlds.
  4. I think it’s high time Democrats stop saving them from them.
  5. Because Luka to LA maximizes the value of the league, not to mention Nico’s former employer Nike. Everybody wins in this deal except fans of the Mavericks. If AD makes the Mavs better short term, or even he doesn’t, Nico can sneak off with the league, Nike, and the Adelsons owing him a bundle, and then reemerge on top somewhere else a year or two later. Like the song says- the sun shines, and people forget.
  6. Blue sky or Threads huh? Sure, because it’s important to ignore the largest platform.
  7. Senator Warren: scolding her way to irrelevance since 2014
  8. I bet 30 days is long enough for the Avocado and Banana factories in Ohio and Michigan to get turned around.
  9. Just wait until the poorly-executed-whisper-campaign-about-Lukas-selfish-attitude gets underway and immediately exposed in public.
  10. The capital markets are the 5th Branch
  11. and one more thing: of course a trade like this undermines the credibility of the league, but the whole league probably gets more valuable with Luka Doncic as a Laker than with the Mavericks. The Mavericks are like Milwaukee- great local fan base, some international fans that follow their foreign players, and no national bandwagon. AND the Venn diagram of international fans who love Luka but already liked the Lakers is a circle. in soccer terms, the Lakers are Man U, and the Mavs are … Crystal Palace, maybe?
  12. Um. No. 1) the owners and the league don’t need to “want it” they only would need to allow it. Can you think of the last time they stopped a move? Do you know what every move that did happen involved? A new stadium in the new city and a failure of the old city to give away enough to make a new stadium happen. 2) moving does not take money out of the other owners pockets unless the league loses value or TV contracts become less expensive. And of course, Vegas offers synergies to alternative revenue streams that are growing, as opposed to declining TV viewership. 3) As I said, moving to Vegas is plan B and is connected to a new stadium and casino gambling. Plan A is staying in North Texas and building a new stadium and a Casino. Casino gambling is the requirement for the Adelsons. Staying in Dallas is optional. 5) Having traded Luka Doncic, can you imagine the city of Dallas or the fans doing what it takes to replace the AAC? This isn’t some conspiracy, it’s just not about sports. This is sports business.
  13. I seem to recall a very short-lived confederacy of sovereign states who felt that cotton production gave them such powerful leverage over the European powers that it would forced them to break a naval blockade and otherwise use their economic might to influence the outcome of a regional war over slavery. The confederacy miscalculated and “Egyptian cotton” became a mainstay of American and European textile manufacturing
  14. Talking about good government with Anastasis is like talking about highway safety with TxTow.
  15. It’s amazing isn’t it? How can the fan base of such a great franchise be so insecure?
  16. I went to a Spurs playoff game (don’t remember against who) during Tim Duncan’s prime. The team was great. Best coach in the league. After the game, riding down the escalators was like being at an A&M football game during the wrecking crew era- less about their own team and more about Dallas this and Mark Cuban that because the Mavs were out of the playoffs but in the news that day. I was shocked by how insecure they were. This is the worst moment in the 45 year history of a fan base that really loves our team, doesn’t care about national media or bandwagons, and doesn’t really care much about yours other than as an regional rival and admiring the success you had during your best years. And you’re in here bitching about what? Fuck right off, Chad.
  17. Bloomberg and CNBC Guests, November-today:
  18. He did? Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure he does, but I haven’t seen anything he said publicly. He likely has contractual obligations that prevent him from criticizing team decisions.
  19. Nico Harrison is many things, but “green” he is not. It is more likely that either he’s playing 3D chess and the Mavs will actually benefit from this or he is personally positioning himself for something 3-5 years out than it is that he got “taken” by anyone. Rob Pelinka is clever enough, but In an ocean of sharks, Nico Harrison is 20ft Great White.
  20. My grandfather grew up in East Texas during the depression and went to work picking cotton when he was about 7 years old. Like a lot of people in those days they didn’t have enough to eat and often lived on small game, especially squirrels, and he developed a real taste for it. When he came back from WWII he met my grandmother in Dallas where she had grown up, and when they got married she put a stop to the whole squirrel business because she found it repulsive, not to mention trashy. I think I’ve mentioned here before that he was a crack shot, even into old age. She died in January of 2000, and when I went to visit him a couple months later, he had squirrels in the freezer. Starting about a week after she passed and until a few weeks before he died 22 years later at 100, he would walk around his neighborhood in Oak Cliff early in the morning, shooting squirrels out of pecan trees with the single shot, smoothbore Diana 25 he “liberated” from a house during the Battle of the Bulge. I’ve got it in my safe today, in good working order. This machine kills squirrels.
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