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38 minutes ago, Chewbacca said:

What assets are they going to do that with?  The ones they didn't get from the Lakers?  Or are they going to gut their roster like the Suns did when they got KD? How did that work out in Phoenix?

Durant is only under contract for one more season, older, and not as good. He isn't the same level of asset he was two years ago. 

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2 minutes ago, ztejas said:

Durant is only under contract for one more season, older, and not as good. He isn't the same level of asset he was two years ago. 

He's gonna command more than you think.  He's still an elite player.

2 hours ago, dcar00 said:

I'm not saying Kidd wanted it but the reports are he was bitching about Luka's training, defense, etc, like others.  maybe some of that on both sides is overblown.  the fault lies with the ownership.  

Yeah I knew you weren't saying that.  I mean we were all mad about conditioning, defense, and attitude or annoyed with niggling injuries at one point or another.  Only Nico and a couple posters upthread think those were causes to get rid of him. 

1 hour ago, chainsaw said:

It's a fat Eastern European man's league now

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6 minutes ago, Chewbacca said:

He's gonna command more than you think.  He's still an elite player.

I'm not saying what he will or won't go for I'm saying it won't take as much as it did the last go round. 

2 minutes ago, ztejas said:

I'm not saying what he will or won't go for I'm saying it won't take as much as it did the last go round. 

Will the Suns get more for KD than the Mavs got for Luka?  It's very possible.

17 minutes ago, Chewbacca said:

Will the Suns get more for KD than the Mavs got for Luka?  It's very possible.

I wouldn't trade AD for Durant. So there's that 🤷

42 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Ah now I see. The Luka trade was used to reset the market downward so that the KD trade is achievable.  I’m sure phx will be reasonable and agree that he doesn’t bring the same level of return as Luka. 

I know you jest, but this explanation more sense than any others that I've heard regarding this trade. 

Which is to say still zero, but like 0.000001.

Great now Durant wont be at that Spurs Suns game in Austin.

15 minutes ago, MAUFRAIS said:

Great now Durant wont be at that Spurs Suns game in Austin.

Hear me out.

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2 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Great but did you notice the bottom?

The shitty win analysis? You're out of you're mind if you think that makes the Spurs 6 wins worse this season. 

And I'm just fucking around - San Antonio isn't doing that before Fox has even played a game. 

Watching the Lakers press conference finally. It's amazing how much weight Luka lost in the 4 days since the trade. Must be ozempic.

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. 

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

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.

If the Mavs owners trades Luka then officially opines about moving the team to Vegas, Mavs fans will help them move their shit and drop them off at the airport.

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 

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.

5 minutes ago, Ricky Butler said:

Gambling is a sin and is ruining our youth.

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1 hour ago, Eskimohorn said:

If the Mavs owners trades Luka then officially opines about moving the team to Vegas, Mavs fans will give them a ride to the train station.

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1 hour ago, Texas Wahoo said:

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Damn son. Everyone getting in on the action.

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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:

 

 

12 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

luka who ???

The Luka who can score in crunch time and not let a 26 pt lead get whittled to 9.

12 hours ago, Pam Cummings 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. 

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 

First home game people should wear Luka jerseys and Luigi hats.

Day 6 AD.  Still can't believe he traded away a fan favorite who looks like he'll be a top 5 all time player.  And now they're gonna turn it around on the fans?  I will shed no tears when Nico and the Adelsons get run out of Dallas. 

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3 hours ago, SameSame said:

First they run their smear campaign against Luka, then on the fans.

No fans want to or are going to hurt any players. Ridiculous.  Front office personnel, maybe a different story.

https://x.com/NBA_NewYork/status/1887659318301921535

 

Who's "they"?  Yeah Nico smeared luka...he aint smearing the fans. The fans are riled up online and the social media aware are jumping to stupid conclusions about how we'll react to the team.

They're being stupid and I can't believe the media is making us look that bad.

That is so stupid. Dallas fans have nothing against the fans, just the ownership and GM. “Player safety” concerns are just making Mavs fans look bad by the ownership and management who clearly hate them 

I thought the goons behind school vouchers were also extremely anti-booze and anti-gambling (and eventually anti-dancing ala Footloose)

47 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

I thought the goons behind school vouchers were also extremely anti-booze and anti-gambling (and eventually anti-dancing ala Footloose)

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