Nah, i agree with the major doucher assesment. Unrelated, but i don't watch the NBA and even I can see it was a dumb trade.
Fallout from the Doncic trade
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My son that lives in Dallas sent me a link that walked you through what the new ownership group might be doing. They are big into gambling casinos, so they purchased the Mavs as a way to use the franchise as the centerpiece of a new arena and casino complex that they wanted to build in Dallas. The state legislature in Texas did not pass the gambling bill making it legal. So the plan now is to tank the team, and either get the state to allow gambling for them to stay. If not they will move the team to Vegas, they know the NBA will not allow them to leave the 4th largest metro area now, but if attendance goes down to nothing, they can then tell the league that the market does not have the fan support and the move will be allowed. For them its a win/win, they either get the casino to be built in the metro plex or move the team to Vegas where they own a number of casinos.
I think you're just describing the plot to the movie Major League.
I am well aware of the DFW casino/gambling initiative and existing resistance to it by TX State legislators. The existing resistance will likely be alleviated over the next few years. If not, the new owners re-sell the team.
Trading Luka not part of a tanking scheme by Nico H and the new owners to eventually move the franchise to Vegas. It is a BS conspiracy theory. That said, the trade was an idiotic move by Nico based on an overreaction to Luka's conditioning process (which can fixed) and Nico being overly infatuated with Anthony Davis.
U nailed that. So in other words they traded Vaughn for an over the hill player mid season right after they figured out Ricky just needed glasses
He's still very young and can mostly get by on talent. I just think that Dallas management's thinking was that he could follow the path of players like Darrick Coleman, Michael Olowakandi, Joe Barry Carrol, or Michael Beasley.
I wouldn't have traded him for AD but I guess if I squint I can sort of see what the thinking was.
I included Joe Barry Carrol because I'm entertained by the nickname Joe Barely Cares.
Well this is the post of day.
Thinking a guy who has made 5 NBA 1st teams in 6 seasons with 2 conference finals and 1 NBA finals appearance under the age of 25 might be on the path of those guys is wild. By you and their front office.
I know. He's better than those guys and I agreed that I wouldn't have made the trade. But if you look at it - Darrick Coleman, Joe Barry Carroll and I guess I could have included JR Rider had really good stats for their first 5 or 6 years. That's when the fall-off happened for them. Yes, they were a year or 2 older after those 5 or 6 years but it happened with them.
I'm really not disagreeing as much as I'm playing devil's advocate.
I will keep it out of the cave, Cuban knows Trump is an ahole con man.
They would have had to pay him a $345 million/ five year max contract if they hadn’t traded him. That’s a lot for some who allegedly doesn’t take his conditioning seriously.
Good story good ending but Kirkland the transplant recipient is correct Anthem was slow rolling hoping he would die. Wonder how much he has already spent in uncovered treatments that he mentioned in the article.About 36 hours ago, Cuban offered to pay in full the cash price for this man's liver transplant that Anthem was deeming "not medically necessary"
Anthem reversed their stance about 24 hours later after the story went viral
Omaha native's liver transplant denial reversed after story goes viral
"They can drag it out till I'm not here anymore," Kirkland told KETV before he heard the news of the claim's reversal. "And then they win because ... they don't have to pay for it."www.ketv.com
