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Does Dallas have the worst GMs/owners in the country?

Wexahu

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The issue is that they did not call around the league and see what other options they had outside of AD. This is a bad trade because they should have gotten much, much more. The Kings got a better haul for Fox and he is not even close to Luka's level. Worse, the Spurs are setting up for a strong future with Wemby, the Rockets are young and exciting and the Mavs now have an old, injury prone team.
Hard to argue with this. I would have expected WAY more draft picks to be included. Maybe Max Christie is a bit of a sleeper in the deal, but still.....
 

CryptoMiner

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The issue is that they did not call around the league and see what other options they had outside of AD. This is a bad trade because they should have gotten much, much more. The Kings got a better haul for Fox and he is not even close to Luka's level. Worse, the Spurs are setting up for a strong future with Wemby, the Rockets are young and exciting and the Mavs now have an old, injury prone team.
No, that wasn't the issue.
 

Bob Sugar

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No, that wasn't the issue.
I’m with Teton here. I get the business aspect of moving on if you think you will either lose a player to FA or overpay their value. If the Cheif thought they were going to lose Mahomes in a year, or have to pay him $100M per year to stay, I get the business decision to move on. But you don’t trade him to conference rival for an older QB and a 1st rounder in 4 years. You find a team willing to give you multiple 1st rounders, some 2nd rounders, etc.

You can’t tell me what they got was the absolute best offer available.
 

y2kFrog

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The issue is that they did not call around the league and see what other options they had outside of AD. This is a bad trade because they should have gotten much, much more. The Kings got a better haul for Fox and he is not even close to Luka's level. Worse, the Spurs are setting up for a strong future with Wemby, the Rockets are young and exciting and the Mavs now have an old, injury prone team.

They were an old injury prone team before the trade.

Wemby is another interesting case study, He is another one those players who looks amazing but the things he does don’t really seem to correlate with actually winning games. He just roams around and jacks up a lot of threes and the Spurs give up the most points per game to centers in the league. They just added Fox, who has been on the league a long time but has never even been on a good team.
 
Since Luka Doncic is Slovenian, I suspect Trump will be dropping a tariff on that trade. We need to encourage that these jobs go to our homegrown players rather than European migrants, while extracting a few million dollars to pay down that 36 trillion dollar debt - just kidding, we know Washington will spend that too.
 
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Bob Sugar

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Since Luka Doncic is Slovenian, I suspect Trump will be dropping a tariff on that trade. We need to encourage that these jobs go to our homegrown players.
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Putt4Purple

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I’ve lost interest in most professional sports because of the selfishness on both sides players/owners. The lack of loyalty to cities and teammates. Yea I know chasing the almighty dollar is of highest priority and everyone is free to do so but the impersonalization and falsehood of being a supposed team player just turns me and most people off!!!

College sports is turning the same way which is why I did not renew my season tickets!! Get off of my lawn and Go Frogs!!!
 

Wexahu

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I’ve lost interest in most professional sports because of the selfishness on both sides players/owners. The lack of loyalty to cities and teammates. Yea I know chasing the almighty dollar is of highest priority and everyone is free to do so but the impersonalization and falsehood of being a supposed team player just turns me and most people off!!!

College sports is turning the same way which is why I did not renew my season tickets!! Get off of my lawn and Go Frogs!!!
All in all, I think the NFL has by far the best product of any sports league. It's not surprising that they dominate TV ratings.

The NFL probably the best competitive structure to maintain true parity and it's a sport where guys can't coast, they have to play all out basically all the time or they won't be at all effective. Baseball is just kind of boring and you've got a lot of teams not really competing to win. In the NBA they go half-speed for the majority of the season because way too many teams make the playoffs and there are way too many games, and college football has without a doubt the dumbest structure overall which effectively eliminates 90+% of the teams from ever having a chance. Maybe the NHL has a pretty good setup, it seems like they might, but I don't pay much attention to hockey.
 

frogs9497

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I think LD may naturally be a little quiet in front of the mic, but did anyone see his LA press conference? He looked about as excited as a dead bird.
 

hometown frog

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I think LD may naturally be a little quiet in front of the mic, but did anyone see his LA press conference? He looked about as excited as a dead bird.
Dallas had been his home since he came to the league. Think that was still shock we were seeing from Luka. At some point it’s gonna turn into fuel for him. And I hope it does.
 
I read that because of the trade, Doncic is no longer eligible for the five-year 345 million SuperMax extension he was due next year and will have to settle for a four-year 229 million extension with the Lakers; 116 million less.

“On top of that, Doncic will go from paying no state income tax in Texas to the country’s largest state income tax in California, with a current top rate of 14.4 percent on income that exceeds $1 million a year, according to Sportico.”
 
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Wexahu

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I read that because of the trade, Doncic is no longer eligible for the five-year 350 million SuperMax he was due next year. This trade costs him 116 million. So that cushions the trade for the Lakers - they can sign him to five years at a 116 M “discount.”
The NBA rules pertaining to the salary cap and player movement are bizarre. Creates all kinds of situations where teams are signing guys to big contracts that they don't even really want and so many times teams will look to move players they just signed.
 

frogs9497

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I read that because of the trade, Doncic is no longer eligible for the five-year 345 million SuperMax extension he was due next year and will have to settle for a four-year 229 million extension with the Lakers; 116 million less.

“On top of that, Doncic will go from paying no state income tax in Texas to the country’s largest state income tax in California, with a current top rate of 14.4 percent on income that exceeds $1 million a year, according to Sportico.”

How I’d love to have that problem.
 

bmoney214

OUCH!!!
So on top of trading Luka, channel 5 has a story out saying that the Mavs are raising season ticket prices next season. One season ticket holder claimed his tickets are being raised 61%, thousands of dollars.

This backs up the tin foil hats that are claiming the new owners are trying to kill fan support so they can move the team to Vegas at some point.

Wonder what Mark Cuban is thinking right now.
 
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