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The Worst Trade in NBA History: Luka traded for AD


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31 minutes ago, AngryDragon said:

Because this is completely normal to do after a trade. 

you gotta like the balls on calling what you believe is a bluff by your season ticket holders.  My guess is they aren't calculating that it is going to be a shitshow while Davis is out and not much better even when he gets back(and then Kyrie has to sit out due to a foot or back injury) and people will flip over the pocket aces.

what prevents them from getting back in later? especially if it craters the team for 2-3 years.  I'm asking because I don't know how the season tickets work with the Mavs.

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3 hours ago, Mitch Cumsteen said:

This isn't even germane to the conversation, but there are many other passionate and loyal fanbases in the NBA that I would put above Dallas. I always considered Dallas a bandwagon sports town. There are too many other sports options. That arena was never considered one of the loudest or difficult to play in.

The passion is especially high in cities that don't have any other major league teams. I would start with Sacramento -- their fans have been shit on forever and they still love their team. Utah, Portland, Memphis, OKC, and San Antonio. None of those places have any other local team to root for. Now that the Mavs committed seppuku, Dallas fans can just as easily go pour their love into the Cowboys for example. 

 

 

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1 hour ago, Ricky Butler said:

I have young sons and live in LA. I'm taking this as an opportunity to allow them to be Laker fans and not deal with the bullshit I've endured as a Dallasite.

I attended Shout Parties in 87 and 88 and had a green and blue  “Beat LA” sign. I may give *myself* permission to be a Lakers fan.

These are not the Dallas Mavericks. These are the Las Vegas Traitors. 

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As a Laker fan, I'm just glad we finally caught a break in getting a star player here.

5 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

I attended Shout Parties in 87 and 88 and had a green and blue  “Beat LA” sign. I may give *myself* permission to be a Lakers fan.

These are not the Dallas Mavericks. These are the Las Vegas Traitors. 

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2 hours ago, AngryDragon said:

Nothing has ever hurt me as a sports fan as much as this trade. Still can't wrap my head around it. 

Just sad and numb. Fuck Nico. He'll be gone in 2 years. This feels like a decision that will alter the franchise for decades.

 

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On 2/2/2025 at 10:34 PM, Derka said:

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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. 

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1 hour ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

I attended Shout Parties in 87 and 88 and had a green and blue  “Beat LA” sign. I may give *myself* permission to be a Lakers fan.

These are not the Dallas Mavericks. These are the Las Vegas Traitors. 

Yeah, I’ve been here for 15 years. No Dirk, Cuban, or Luka feels like an opportunity to move on. 

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