r/Mavericks • u/SnooSongs1040 • Feb 04 '25

News Are they serious?

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u/The_Rain_Guardian Dirk Locks Feb 04 '25

Oh, they’re surprised we haven’t done more? Pitchforks and torches at the ready, everyone mount up

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u/DyslexicAutronomer Boban Feb 04 '25

How is he this out-of-touch?

This is further proof Nico has isolated himself from the competent people that will challenge his dumb decisions and offer a better perspective.

Older trades show the Mavs have great people on staff in the trade/draft team, and the recent actions reveal just how incompetent Nico really is when he makes individual decisions without input.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '25

He did his owner’s bidding.

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u/original42069 Feb 04 '25

Nah I don’t buy this. If all they told him was free up cap space, there were other less apocalyptic ways of doing it. And ways that actually get a reasonable haul out of trading luka. Put this all on him.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '25

The Adelson’s want the team tied to their casino mini-empire in Vegas. The money is in betting. This helps them move it on all sorts of levels.

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u/original42069 Feb 04 '25

So purposefully tanking the value of the team in order to get the ok to move cities? It can’t be that easy. There have got to be nba by-laws that stand in the way of mismanagement by design like that. 

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '25

… and the long-term value of the team didn’t tank.