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2 hours ago, CurlyDumps said:

Calling McMahon a mouthpiece is hilarious. His nickname on The Hoop Collective podcast is Banned McMahon because Cuban revoked his media credentials once. Kidd has publicly excoriated him for not being positive enough.  They don't like him precisely because he's not their mouthpiece.

Of course there were death threats. When stuff like this happens in the social media age, when are there not? Kickers get death threats for missing field goals. Mavs have their own security team so they handled it themselves and didn't report it to LE. That is, according to Mouthpiece McMahon. I find his story to be more credible than,  "Mavs fans are taking this pretty well! Not one death threat!"

McMahon has been easily the most outspoken critic of Luka in the Dallas media for years. Some of it is valid, but there has been a bunch of it that is laughable. Now he has a book on Luka coming out in a few months and needs to be at the center of the story to push his book.

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5 minutes ago, ITHorn said:

McMahon has been easily the most outspoken critic of Luka in the Dallas media for years. Some of it is valid, but there has been a bunch of it that is laughable. Now he has a book on Luka coming out in a few months and needs to be at the center of the story to push his book.

Never trust someone in the media who has a book coming out to be neutral.  Sports media, political media, etc.  All they care about is pushing the book and making money, not the truth. 

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4 hours ago, CurlyDumps said:

Calling McMahon a mouthpiece is hilarious. His nickname on The Hoop Collective podcast is Banned McMahon because Cuban revoked his media credentials once. Kidd has publicly excoriated him for not being positive enough.  They don't like him precisely because he's not their mouthpiece.

Of course there were death threats. When stuff like this happens in the social media age, when are there not? Kickers get death threats for missing field goals. Mavs have their own security team so they handled it themselves and didn't report it to LE. That is, according to Mouthpiece McMahon. I find his story to be more credible than,  "Mavs fans are taking this pretty well! Not one death threat!"

It's pretty evident Nico's been using Macmahon to get his side of the story out the past week.  As for the past couple of years, can you think of someone else who has apparently also been critical of Luka this entire time?

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The Mavs brain trusts had better brace themselves. Every time the media gushes about Luka in LA being a match made in Heaven, the white hot rage of the Dallas fans will grow hotter. It won’t end until Nico leaves to work for the Adelson’s casino empire and the Mavs organization is left in a pile of rubble.

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52 minutes ago, Satchel said:

The Mavs brain trusts had better brace themselves. Every time the media gushes about Luka in LA being a match made in Heaven, the white hot rage of the Dallas fans will grow hotter. It won’t end until Nico leaves to work for the Adelson’s casino empire and the Mavs organization is left in a pile of rubble.

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ESPN incessantly slobbing the Lakers knob last night was just fucking brutal. It was like a two hour plus commercial for Laker exceptionalism. The announcers were giddy with the idea that it was somehow destiny that the Lakers end up with another generational talent to build around. They were still incredulous that anybody could be so stupid to trade a 25 year old who is a top 5 player in the world. Like, "Can you believe what the Lakers just fell into? There's Rob Pelinka.... the guy who magically made it happen. He must have the world's largest rabbit foot up his ass! Isn't this great!"

I don't even like Luka or the Mavs and it made me want to puke. I can't imagine what you Dallas fans are going through. Those fuckers were due for another post-Kobe style walk through the desert in Lebron's twilight years and we were robbed of that. 

And I want to hate Luka for all this... but it's not his fault. It's not like he asked for this. He still looks as shell shocked as the rest of us that he's playing with Lebron. Jesus, what a colossal unforced fuck up this whole thing is. How does this shit happen in 2025? 

 

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Seemed like the NBA was finished with totally incompetent and/or malevolent GMs and owners in the vein of David Khan, Donald Sterling, and the like.  Felt like for the most part the fans were left bickering about fringe moves at the end of the rotation and whether or not ownership would hold its nose and go into the tax/apron.

Boy have the Mavs proved me wrong. 

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33 minutes ago, MrX said:

Seemed like the NBA was finished with totally incompetent and/or malevolent GMs and owners in the vein of David Khan, Donald Sterling, and the like.  Felt like for the most part the fans were left bickering about fringe moves at the end of the rotation and whether or not ownership would hold its nose and go into the tax/apron.

Boy have the Mavs proved me wrong. 

Lol. Simmons and the dudes he had on talked about this on a trade deadline pod. They were like "this feels like the NBA of the early 2000s" and Khan's name came up. 

The AD instant non-contact tweak feels like the basketball Gods spiting Dallas. He's actually been fairly durable the past couple seasons and has avoided those type of nags.

1 hour ago, Mitch Cumsteen said:

ESPN incessantly slobbing the Lakers knob last night was just fucking brutal. It was like a two hour plus commercial for Laker exceptionalism. The announcers were giddy with the idea that it was somehow destiny that the Lakers end up with another generational talent to build around. They were still incredulous that anybody could be so stupid to trade a 25 year old who is a top 5 player in the world. Like, "Can you believe what the Lakers just fell into? There's Rob Pelinka.... the guy who magically made it happen. He must have the world's largest rabbit foot up his ass! Isn't this great!"

I don't even like Luka or the Mavs and it made me want to puke. I can't imagine what you Dallas fans are going through. Those fuckers were due for another post-Kobe style walk through the desert in Lebron's twilight years and we were robbed of that. 

And I want to hate Luka for all this... but it's not his fault. It's not like he asked for this. He still looks as shell shocked as the rest of us that he's playing with Lebron. Jesus, what a colossal unforced fuck up this whole thing is. How does this shit happen in 2025? 

 

I can't hate Luka. I feel bad for him. Shit - I never hated him on the Mavs - I've always been fairly indifferent when it comes to him or Jokic winning. 

That said I hope the Lakers never win a title with him under contract. I hope they never make the Finals. Frankly - every game they win with Luka on the court will make me slightly sick to my stomach. 

Which - frankly - makes me more impatient with the Spurs. My internal monologue is screaming - "we need to get good and start challenging these fucks NOW".  

That may be a little unreasonable but shit, man. I feel like Wemby needs to keep them from getting another dynasty going. 

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2 minutes ago, ztejas said:

Lol. Simmons and the dudes he had on talked about this on a trade deadline pod. They were like "this feels like the NBA of the early 2000s" and Khan's name came up. 

The AD instant non-contact tweak feels like the basketball Gods spiting Dallas. He's actually been fairly durable the past couple seasons and has avoided those type of nags.

I can't hate Luka. I feel bad for him. Shit - I never hated him on the Mavs - I've always been fairly indifferent when it comes to him or Jokic winning. 

That said I hope the Lakers never win a title with him under contract. I hope they never make the Finals. Frankly - every game they win with Luka on the court will make me slightly sick to my stomach. 

Funny. I did not hear the Simmons trade pod, but him ragging on David Khan isn’t anything new. And Khan deserves every bit of all the vitriol directed his way - truly a disastrous tenure. 

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