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19 hours ago, closetohumping said:

Like I said above these people think the Mavs got the better part of the deal:

 

shaq

chuck

doug gottleib

gil arenas

kendrick perkins

This is not true. I heard the Chuck, Shaq and Perkins explanation. All they said was that this probably makes the Mavs better. They did not say they got the better part of the deal. 

19 hours ago, gsoda3 said:

Put an asterisk by Shaq's name, he said the Mavs won for the next two years.  Which isn't true but it's what he said.

Correct. 

Posted
3 hours ago, Dbeasy said:

This is not true. I heard the Chuck, Shaq and Perkins explanation. All they said was that this probably makes the Mavs better. They did not say they got the better part of the deal. 

Correct. 

Fair enough but have I got some good news for you Mavs fans.  Norm Hitzges says it will all be ok. Mavs will be alright

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No CR: Expansion of gambling aint happening till Dan Goeb is out as Lt Gov, if ever. Abbott can say whatever he wants to make it looks like he is trying to "get it done" to deflect angry Mavs Fans and convince angry casino owners that if they just give him a little bit more in lobby money and political donations that it will get across the finish line...but it aint happening.

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It either hits the ballot or won't.

If it hits the ballot, it passes.

But no, we'd rather play fuck-fuck morality/ protection games.

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27 minutes ago, Evil Bill Obrien said:

No CR: Expansion of gambling aint happening till Dan Goeb is out as Lt Gov, if ever. Abbott can say whatever he wants to make it looks like he is trying to "get it done" to deflect angry Mavs Fans and convince angry casino owners that if they just give him a little bit more in lobby money and political donations that it will get across the finish line...but it aint happening.

Wouldn't be surprising at all, just grift at every turn.

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Posted
28 minutes ago, Iceman said:

It either hits the ballot or won't.

If it hits the ballot, it passes.

But no, we'd rather play fuck-fuck morality/ protection games.

Lol the ballot? In Texas???

It will either pass the lege or not 

Posted
Just now, Js1 said:

Lol the ballot? In Texas???

It will either pass the lege or not 

Either way, I have zero confidence in it passing in most of our lifetimes.  It makes entirely too much sense to pass it.

Posted
5 minutes ago, Ricky Butler said:

Gambling is a sin and is ruining our youth.

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On 2/4/2025 at 6:30 PM, Catdaddyhorn said:

The guy who actually wrote the article, Ethan Strauss, said that Nico wasn't the guy who called Steph, Stephawn (the actual name mistake in the article is Stephawn not Seth). In fact he was on a Dallas area podcast just yesterday and pointed out  totally missed the point of his article. If anything the thrust was that Nico was a relationship manager and not an executive with decision making powers. He was basically a guy who made sure the athletes were happy. Steph was one of his clients but Kobe was his main client. The top decision maker for NIke didnt even attend the meeting with Steph, which, as Ethan points out in the article, more or less demonstrates what the prevailing winds were indicating as to the level of importance of Steph to the Nike portfolio at the time, (he wasnt). He goes onto say that Nico essentially peter principled as a GM after Mark sold the team. The plan was for Mark to be the defacto GM and Nico to curry favor with players he had relationships with.  When Mark sold to the Adelson's Nico was essentially promoted and now took on a role he was never supposed to have in practice. Strauss also theorized that the negotiations between Nico and Pelinka may have reverted back to the dynamic they had when Pelinka was Kobe's agent and Nico was his Nike rep. As a Nike rep for a client such as Kobe the biggest job description is to please your client and those associated with him ie his agent. Everything reported about the trade negotiations between Nico and Pelinka plays out as though Nico had a pavlovian response to please Pelinka as he did when he was Kobe's agent. 

Youtube video from the above reference:

 

 

Posted
34 minutes ago, destroya said:

Not quite. There’s two pieces of gambling legislation. The one the article mentions would allow online sports betting. The other that Sands/the Adelsons are pushing would allow resort style casino gambling in Texas. 

the other piece is the casinos in Oklahoma and Louisiana lobbying( bribing} the state Texas Government to keep gambling out 

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