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I'm also not buying the "move to Vegas" conspiracy theories. I think some variation of this is how it played out based on everything I've read (which has been way too much). 1. Nico and Luka clashed and potentially didn't like each other. Luka probably did take advantage of his superstar status (as most probably do) and had his own personal medical team, etc. involved, and yes, did have documented issues as far as conditioning, dealing with refs, drinking, etc. (not unlike Nash and Dirk at that age who I saw out all the time during that era). 2. Nico and new ownership didn't really help the above dynamic by running off long time Mavs support staff that Luka had good relationships with. 3. Nico's surrounded himself with "Yes" men in the front office. 4. Nico's background is AAU driven/U.S. basketball and he's not as comfortable with European influence/European star player. 5. Nico had a longstanding (going back to high school) personal relationship Anthony Davis, and considering all of the above, believed AD to be a much more comfortable "fit" for him and what he envisions for the Mavs. It was always AD or bust for him regardless of reports to the contrary. Lakers able to take advantage of this. 6. There was zero regard for state of franchise post the Kyrie/AD window. Nico has no desire to still have this position once Mavs are in full rebuild. 7. So given the above, Nico convinced himself (without anyone providing strong opposition) that this was in fact a good basketball move. Dumont is fucking clueless about basketball in all aspects and allowed himself to be convinced by Nico that this was a good move. 8. Nico and new ownership aren't from Dallas, have zero appreciation for Mavs history and Dirk in particular. They had no idea what the quote on his statue said and no appreciation for how much the 2 way "loyalty" with Dirk meant to all during the era of star players bouncing around and teaming up together, and thus no appreciation that Luka was, to this fanbase, the more talented heir apparent. Thus, they completely underestimated the fan backlash. 9. Cuban had been frozen out and had no real opportunity to save these idiots from themselves. 10. The entire organization, after completely under appreciating the fan backlash and not expecting the almost universal assessment that this was, in fact, an absolutely retarded basketball move, has managed this from a PR perspective about as bad a humanly possible.
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CEO of UHG Shot and Killed in NYC - WTF is wrong with you New York
Skipper replied to Bevo's topic in Daily Texan
I'm not a litigator but I saw the demand letter from Clare Locke posted on social media and thought it was terrible. Way too verbose, repetitive, unnecessarily aggressive. I read like something I would have written as a first year attorney that would have been ripped to shreds by a partner. -
I bet season ticket sales fall off a cliff. I'll be interested to hear from season ticket holder friends what they do about pricing. If they were smart they offer up a decrease as a 'loyalty' gesture but my bet is on another material increase given how tone deaf they have shown to be about everything else the last 2 weeks.
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At least in 2012 the thesis was plausible if not flawed. Ownership/front office thought we caught lightning in a bottle, couldn't repeat, and needed dry powder for the 'big free agents' (which of course, never materialized). So it was a big mistake but at least you could see the argument. In this case, not only did they trade a beloved international superstar entering his prime that got you to the finals last year, but they got a terrible return and then shit all over him for literally no reason on the way out. I don't think I've ever seen anything like it in sports. And I wish nothing but the worst for those 2 assholes. I don't see myself ever rooting for this team again unless both are gone or at least Nico is gone and Adelson does a massive mea culpa for ruining the franchise.
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And he didn't even show for the press conference last night (just like bitch ass Nico refuses to face the local media). Not sure what that was about. Players are having to take the full brunt of this implosion which isn't fair to them, but yeah, I want Nico and Adelson to wallow in failure. Guess this is how Washington fans felt about Dan Snyder.
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I was at one probably 12 or 13 years ago that probably had around 20 and we had a large private room at the steak house in Planet Hollywood for the main dinner. I either planned it or help plan it and even back then it basically required a set menu per person with a drink package and had to book either entire dinner or like 50% on my card to reserve room. That ended up being a blast of a dinner but if actually trying to plan something for a group that large, while possible, it's going to be more like hosting a party or corporate event and it's going to require $$ up front, and like others have said, you have to account for inevitable no shows when budgeting. There is still some jackass friend of a friend of a friend that is apparently a doctor now that still owes me like $500 for a 2007 era Vegas trip that still irks me.
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I talked to a 25 year season ticket holder late afternoon and biggest die hard fan I know that is not planning on renewing as of now. There hasn't been any formal announcement to ticket holders about this whole $2K rebate (he hasn't heard from his ticket rep at all) and hasn't wanted to bug him or vent. It really sucks for all the people in Mavs marketing, sales, PR, etc. that are having to deal with this shitshow when they are all probably equally furious about what happened. But as for season tickets, new ownership already jacked up season tickets a ton last year. They probably won't read the room and do the same this year. They are going to lose a ton of the long term die hards. It's just going to be a completely different fanbase go forward. I mean, it had been trending that way for a while now (and a big reason I'm a Stars and not Mavs season ticket holder as the actual fans to corporate/ Insta crowd skews WAY more towards "fans" at the Stars games) but just going to trend even heavier corporate, Gen Z, Dallas transplant etc. that will jump on and off bandwagon depending on record. Those of us that lived Dirk's entire career arc with highs and lows of a true superstar that was "ours" feel like we got robbed of watching the same thing play out with his more talented successor. It's just disgusting. And I'm sure I'll take my 8 YO son back to a game at some point but not anytime soon (he was mad he doesn't get to see Luka but did not understand why we don't root for the mavs anymore and I decided to drop it for another day). I can't fathom spending a dime for this franchise or this owner at the moment.
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The Dallas Stars 2024-2025 Season Thread: Win Now, Talk Later
Skipper replied to Longhorn_Fan68's topic in Other Sports
Stars already got most of my $$ and attention during the non-football months but will now be getting all of both. Sad I'm missing last game before long stretch off today but daddy/daughter dance taking priority this afternoon. Let's get 2 points. -
This. Fuck Cuban. He got his Championship and a big pile of money and turned the franchise over to fucking assholes that don't understand anything about sports or sports fandom. I have no doubt that he's shocked and pissed off about this move, but he enabled it after selling the fanbase on loyalty for his entire tenure.
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The Dallas Stars 2024-2025 Season Thread: Win Now, Talk Later
Skipper replied to Longhorn_Fan68's topic in Other Sports
What I don't love is the note that he's going to see a specialist to evaluate further. Sounds like the worst is still on the table depending on that evaluation. Still, if it was an obvious tear mandating surgery, presumably they just would have just ruled him out for the season today, so good news in that sense. -
This is 100% the reality although I've been shouted down when I made this point once before. The people that like sports and also like to post about politics find the site that largely suits their political flavor and then they all collectively shout down alternative viewpoints leading to the echo chamber pretty much every sports political board is. I've never paid a dime to Fat Ketch but have had access to my buddy's account for well over a decade and sometimes for the sheer humor I'll read a thread in the cloak room and then the OB politics board on the same topic and it's pretty funny. I don't have any problem with that in theory, but similarly, on all sports boards, because you have so many like minded individuals, the politics leak out onto other threads. Imma is probably correct that this doesn't have anything to do with the site dying but for me personally I spend a lot less time on non sports, entertainment or food than I used to. Probably just the reality of current culture where you essentially can't escape it and social media algorithms are also simultaneously echo chambers.
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Looks like they got moved to a different thread. But if someone is talking about Trump, or any R or D public official, the post, even if just a quote, will inevitably have a partisan tone in this politically charged environment. It's just the stupid fucking world we live in. I don't give a shit what he or any other R or D have to say on a fast paced news thread unless it's a flat out statement of facts. A lot of us don't care and actively try to avoid what any of those idiots say as it's fucking irrelevant to the goal of actually becoming educated on any given topic. When I click on a thread like that in DT, I want fact aggregation and expertise aggregation (what has historically made DT great is we have experts on damn near any topic in the community) and then community discussion on same. If I want to bitch about Trump or Kamala or similar I can go to the Cloak Room for that. But inevitably in damn near any thread someone has to chime in on what Trump said, and someone reacts, and off we go. Then yeah, those of us that are actively trying to avoid partisan bullshit end up bitching about the Cloak Roomers which, to your point, further dilutes the discussion.
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I mean you were the one telling us Malik Murphy would be just as good as Quinn Ewers last year
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This is the entire fucking point dude. There is an entire forum for this shit. Literally a thread exactly for it. Go circle jerk there and not on every fuckin thread on this board.
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This. I don't like Trump either, and when I want to think about politics or get pissed off at that asshole, it's certainly not hard to seek that out. Hell, maybe once a week I'll head over to the Cloak Room because I know whatever terrible shit that asshole and those around him are doing will be discussed at length. But he's literally broken the fucking brain of a lot of the most frequent posters on this board. And then those that disagree with them can't help themselves to retort back. And yeah, I've seen it go the other way where the Trumpers get political then the libs can't help themselves. The DCA crash thread is a perfect example. I go to try to get actual info and news. See the reddit post from a pilot immamac imbedded which was good info, see some info on the victims which is good info, scan for other content by pilots or others that post on this board. There is usually great stuff on threads like that that is much better than turning on the news. But now you have to wade through a shit ton of broken brained Cloak Roomers that can't help themselves. Is there a way to ignore posters on every forum BUT cloak room? I don't mind getting their take on there if that is what I'm in the mood to consume. But, shocking I know, a lot us don't let politics consume our lives. It's getting pretty close to the point I log on to check out the 9.95, food/travel and entertainment threads and that's it.
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The Dallas Stars 2024-2025 Season Thread: Win Now, Talk Later
Skipper replied to Longhorn_Fan68's topic in Other Sports
I mean if we lose Miro for the season it really doesn't matter. I would think there is a practice today so hopefully get some info. -
JFC. Can't even read an actual active news thread without 50% cloak room bullshit.
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This is, unintentionally, the funniest thing I've seen you post.
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People involved with Texas One clearly talk to him as he sends out periodic messages that they need more donors etc. So if those guys talk to him, why don't they tell his fat ass to STFU speculating about NIL numbers if he ever wants any inside info.
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The Dallas Stars 2024-2025 Season Thread: Win Now, Talk Later
Skipper replied to Longhorn_Fan68's topic in Other Sports
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The Dallas Stars 2024-2025 Season Thread: Win Now, Talk Later
Skipper replied to Longhorn_Fan68's topic in Other Sports
Yeah, I mean it's only the prospects for the entire season riding on it LOL. Best case scenario is probably miss games until the break and miss the 4 nations then get back healthy. I would take that all day.
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