cupcakesnake wrote:
Cuban I guess. It's happened less than it did during the late-Dirk era when it felt like they were constantly letting the 2011 vets walk in the name of going big game hunting in free agency. Before that it was Steve Nash.
Lately there's the Brunson thing (though I've written at length about how I felt there was some super bad luck timing involved in how Brunson was being valued and when he was eligible to sign). I didn't love losing DFS to pursue Kyrie, but it's hard to feel negatively about that right now as things are working out. Dallas has bounced back, but it's hard to ignore that they already had Brunson and DFS on the roster and have had to do a LOT of work (and spend a lot of draft picks) to get the roster back to a similar place.
Cuban sold his majority stake in the team in December. I am not really a Cuban fan at all so I was glad. While obviously it worked out getting Luka another Cuban blunder was missing out on Giannis which Donnie Nelson had scouted, but Cuban wanted to trade down to chase Dwight Howard who never came. The Mavs instead drafted Shane Larkin son of baseball player Barry Larkin. Shane is not even in the NBA anymore while Giannis has 2 MVPs and a championship. But again sometimes things work out for the best by accident we got Luka can't complain, it's not as if we would have had both Giannis and Luka because GIannis would have improved the team I would think.
Interestingly enough when Kidd signed his extension recently he thanked the new Mavs owner and GM Nico Harrison, he did not mention Cuban at all. Cuban still owns 27% of the Mavs he's just not majority owner.
