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  1. This..... Cowherd has no sources and never has.... He's commentator, not an insider or reporter and never has been. I mean the deal at one point had 2 firsts and Knecht, who was a first himself and dude couldn't close that. Laughable. Maybe ownership is involved but there's professional pride and even if you're in a closet with an alligator, you still try to come out with as many limbs as possible.
  2. He's also 3.5 years older..... Be 30 by next playoffs. You'd miss the last years of Micah's prime and still be on the hook for a ton of money. Garrett is the type of guy you get if you're 1 player away..... Dallas is more like 21 players away.
  3. Look, there's some large sized assumptions you have to make in your implications, but I'm not going to defend the Adelson's or Dumond's. If you think they're terrible people who are looking for leverage to bring gambling to Texas (a goal way before they had any idea of the Mavs opportunity) OR pick up their toys and go home to Vegas with the organization in tow, then you have only a few groups to blame..... First, them for deliberately lying and fraudulently trying to build relationships amongst business owners in the DFW area. Second, Mark Cuban...... who, heavily rumored to be leveraged for his own problems, either mistakenly or haphazardly sold the team off to such vultures. The league and other governors for taking the family in good faith because they presumably know this family and because they are "part of the in crowd", the ownership change was approved so quickly. All of that said, moving a team is actually kind of difficult and actually requires taking short-term cash flow losses and damaging the brand and the actual value of the product, especially one with good economics like the Mavericks. And failure would necessitate another sell which would be unbelievably embarrassing for said group (Remember the Maloofs?) But anything is possible. Ha. This is a fantastic point. Exactly..... this will be a good and painful litmus test for Dumond...... Yes, trust your basketball people.... to a point. If you don't know what the fuck you're doing, then ensure you have counsel and always verify and check in on management.
  4. I do not, but I'm sure some of this will be dictated by the next 15-20 games. And if Paul decides he'd rather chase a ring late and the Spurs are out of the playoffs, then good luck to him. I don't care.
  5. #4. Already bobbing and weaving.... https://x.com/PaulGarciaNBA/status/1886574355217252588
  6. It's been reported Harrison negotiated the deal by himself and then took it to ownership, almost surely to Patrick Dumont, the Mavs' governor. He laughed at Harrison at first but Harrison laid his case and owernship, after some semblance of evaluation I presuppose, allowed him to do it and signed off. Now, could this be some made up story and Dumont and family demanded Harrison sell Luka as the beginning of a small set of dominos for a long game of moving the Mavericks to LV in several years? Sure. Is it the most likely story? Probably not, but we live in a conspiracy theory world, so possibly. It's not the story they're selling right now though.... I've been rewinding that exchange in my mind. It was terribly disrespectful but Finley, but most of us laughed it off. Could an underlying reason the Mavs wanted to move on was they knew or felt Doncic had a drinking problem? Exactly.... I think Lowe went over that on his podcast. Now you have sign the terrorist Kyrie Irving to make all of this work and rely on him to be the leader of the team??? I'm sure that will go swimmingly.
  7. Chris Paul is on a 1 year deal. He may be playing the last 30+ games of his career. The Spurs were extremely transparent with what his role was and he certainly knew a move like this was not only possible, but hopefully likely. The Spurs traded their backup PG in Jones so they obviously feel CP3 will move to the bench, probably play a few less minutes but still have a very large role in hopefully getting the team into the playoffs and getting them some experience. If Paul wanted to move on, I'm sure the Spurs would accommodate him.
  8. Going to leave this here. Because we're all smarter listening to this guy...... https://x.com/ZachLowe_NBA/status/1886245748947202446
  9. I'm not trying to piss on your pity party. Again, I empathize. But why the fucking Lakers? Can we all agree, this was the fucking worst? At least we sent Kawhi literally to a different country. Trade Luka to the Hornets or Pacers or the fucking Kings.... but not the Lakers. Fuck that shit. Hope it gets better, Mav guys.
  10. Well you can't expect every team to be so incompetent, but yea, it does burn you up when you have to pay market, or even wholesale prices when there's a special needs guy out there giving shit away. The French detest American beaches..... they laugh at them. And they don't know what the fuck to do with alligators. Not used to fucking dinosaurs. Good one. The Kareem trade was pretty bad IIRC. I said with fucking authority!!!!!
  11. Go home, gsoda3, you're drunk. Let the pain in..... it'll continue to fucking stir in your gut for years..... reads like it's already gotten to your brain. Agreed. Well said..... makes it worse. The Spurs were held up by the appetite and let's face it, deviousness of a dumbass uncle and dumbass player; you guys shot yourself in the dick with a fucking bazooka. This started because a Spurs fans was trying to empathize and infantile Mavs fans wanted to stomp their feet and let every know how stupid they are when it comes to basketball. You didn't..... you get it. I like the cut of your jib. LOL. I mean.... immensely. Dude is special on one side of the court, but he's a "generationally" bad defensive player. He also is very difficult to win with because of his style play as he was a ball stopper. Other teams have tried with these type of players and failed (Harden, Barkley, Westbrook, Iverson), especially the ones who weren't very good at defense too. He's special if you needed a bucket. He's special if you need an offensive juggernaut and he can almost single handily keep you in any game, but yes, he's a very flawed player. He will be very difficult to construct a championship team around especially perennially. But ultimately, this wasn't what you wanted if a Mavs fan. Not like this. Not when it was your organization's stupidity to do so poorly in a trade. Not when your team chose to do so terribly. Not when the mistake was so pronounced and self inflicted. I empathize and sympathize with them. Walking the desert is no fun. I suspect they have until next June and then that sun is gonna get hot and that sand it going to get uncomfortable. Nothing to do but shake your head and understand it sucks. And to bail out the Lakers to boot? What a fucking disaster.
  12. Basically the best pick they gave up was the one for Dillingham in 6 years. Here it's broken down: The Spurs got De'Aaron Fox while sending out four firsts. One is a Hornets first that will convey into two seconds. One is a Bulls that is probably never going to convey. And another is one of their own in 2027. The only of value they sent out IMO is the 2031 Wolves pick. They still have a lot of good picks left for future moves.
  13. And a lot of picks..... A couple of firsts and a lot of 2nds because of conveyance..... This seems right: https://x.com/YossiGozlan/status/1886229199037620467 The Spurs got De'Aaron Fox while sending out four firsts. One is a Hornets first that will convey into two seconds. One is a Bulls that is probably never going to convey. And another is one of their own in 2027. The only of value they sent out IMO is the 2031 Wolves pick. They still have a lot of good picks left for future moves.
  14. Full trade: Full trade: Spurs: De'Aaron Fox, Jordan McLaughlin Kings: Zach LaVine, Sidy Cissoko, three first round picks (2025 CHA, 2027 SAS, 2031 MIN), three second round picks (2025 CHI, 2028 DEN, 2028 own back) Bulls: Zach Collins, Tre Jones, Kevin Huerter, their own 2025 pick via SAS As much as I can decipher..... Spurs gave up 2 first rounders and couple of 2nds???? I may be off.
  15. Zach Collins traded...... now we got a win-win!!!! J/K. Tre gone too. Chris Haynes @ChrisBHaynes · 2m Sources: Spurs are sending Tre Jones and Zach Collins to Chicago. - Kings are sending Kevin Huerter to Chicago. - Jordan McLaughlin is going to San Antonio with Fox.
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