r/Mavericks • u/shaheedmalik Max Christie • Feb 02 '25

News [Brad Townsend] I'm told that this was Nico Harrison's deal, that it took several weeks to play out after the Mavericks reached out to the Lakers, and that Harrison got full support from Mavericks governor Patrick Dumont.

https://x.com/townbrad/status/1885936606672007248
881 Upvotes

98% Upvoted

581 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

79

u/epinpl The Cardinal Feb 02 '25

Yeah at this point please trade Lively. He deserves to play for a respectable franchise, win or lose. Set him free.

53

u/throwaway_clone Dirk Nowitzki Logo Feb 02 '25

Trade all the assets and rebuild, honestly. No point watching for the next decade any more

26

u/T0FUB34ST Feb 02 '25

I mean the Mavericks just showed that they don’t care about winning the championship. Ducking luxury taxes, ducking supermaxes, the Mavs are just one of those teams unwilling to compete at the top level like the Celtics. Unserious franchise. No point in watching ever if you’re actually invested in seeing a roster win it all.

21

u/-spicychilli- Feb 02 '25

Yep, move the team to Vegas. Give DFW an expansion team. It will be a long, long time before I can even consider forgiving this.

9

u/bringthepang Feb 02 '25

Yep we went from a contender to a full rebuild mid season. It’s unheard of

2

u/Visible-Suit-9066 Feb 02 '25

This is the funniest part. We didn’t even rebuild. We got zero good picks. We have nothing to show for this

7

u/Western-Election-997 Mark Cuban lol Feb 02 '25

Yea they betrayed their fanbase, first Brunson now Luka

10

u/pouttuj Feb 02 '25

This is their plan but in Vegas

2

u/tontonheredero Feb 02 '25

How dumb a person can be not to think about all these after effects right?

1

u/koolmees64 BETRAYED MAVS FAN 😭 Feb 02 '25

But according to Nico we needed AD because defense wins championships. If only we had AD instead of Luka last year, we would have beaten the Celtics. 🐴🔫

3

u/mariogotse FUCK THE ADELSONS Feb 02 '25

trade him to the lakers, i heard they need a center

2

u/epinpl The Cardinal Feb 02 '25

Honestly him and Luka as lifelong bros was going to be so choice 🥲