So, move on, be skeptical and hope for the best. 

so like what the Knicks been doing for the last 20 years?

As a relatively new Mavs fan it’s so hard not to be nostalgic for 24’ and 21’. Yes Luka was 60% of that but it’s so hard to just give up the other 40%.

I can’t bring myself to be a Lakers fan.

Yeah I’m just going to follow Luka and the lakers. Maybe one day I’ll come back to the mavs but who knows. My heart just isn’t there anymore.

honestly everyone would benefit from just being a lakers fan

They’re not gonna sell the team though, so all that does is set up perpetual disappointment

It’s what I’m getting at as well. They’re quick to say “Luka come back” like how will he want to come back when the very same people who approved the trade still owns the team? I don’t get it at all lol

But what if we have already watched pirated streams our entire life and have never been to a game?

For real. This is what I don’t get. All the “Fire Nico” shit, but Mavs fans were still attending games. You want to fuck ownership over? Hit them in the wallet and stop attending games. If they had mostly empty arenas with nothing but away fans right from the start, Nico would’ve been fired within a week.

If owners aren’t making money from the team, they’ll sell. But I guess this requires the fans to act collectively which is humanly impossible.

I’m a former Chargers and NFL fan so I know what it feels like to be backstabbed by greedy ownership. When Spanos moved the Chargers to LA, I stopped watching football.

The franchise is worth nothing without fan support!

With TV deals, I’m not sure that’s actually true.

What else do you think they’re trying to do? Make the team worse?

Skin the owners and Nico and fashion a Luka jersey out of their skin, the resulting ritual will undo the past year of NBA history, and place us in a world where the Luka trade didn’t happen.

What do u mean, you think we should just threw away the memories, history and passion because of one guy? Why would i even be a fan of sports lol?

Maybe this is genuinely surprising to Lakers fans, but most people can’t just pick another team. For me it’s either Mavs or stop watching the NBA.

I think ppl forget that a lot of fans are locals. This is the team you can go see week in, week out. I became a wiz fan cus the nose bleeds were cheap in college and I’ve sat thru years of suck. It’s okay to still want your home team to do well even if they did something monumentally stupid.

This is true. This was actually reported on months ago.

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/44704219/inside-end-luka-doncic-era-dallas-mavericks

mother* not wife

It really is impossible to understate what a fucking piece of shit Nico is

Take note that casey smith is one of the bestin the league in terms of training. Disgusting works by Nico on how he handled the mavs. Fuck you nico

Even before the trade, Dirk wasn’t really super involved in the organization because he was never offered a proper job or a specific role, not even when Cuban was still the owner, so he kinda felt out of place

They were pushed out before the trade because Nico thought they were enabling Luka.

From April: “Smith, Holsopple and Spangler were all longtime Mavs employees who had helped Doncic, a Slovenian who spent his adolescence in Spain, make the major cultural transition after coming to Dallas as a teenager. They had become confidantes for the superstar, but sources said Harrison saw them as “enablers” of Doncic, despite them being immensely respected by their peers throughout the league.”

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/44704219/inside-end-luka-doncic-era-dallas-mavericks

I remember Luka’s second to last season (before they made their finals run) MacMahon brought up a few times that Casey Smith was being sidelined and he seemed to think that was a bad/concerning sign

Nico would’ve fired him had he “took a stand”. Good grief. Give it up already. Nico’s out. Let’s get to healing.

yep, well this also contradicts the idea that nico was doing this whole trade by himself, finley knew obviously owner did. just their whole story reads like a simplified corporate one guy takes the fall the rest come out scotch free

Sucking up to your boss? Nico was the GM, he ultimately makes the basketball decisions. This wasn’t an unethical issue where you can just “take a stand.”

And faulting Finley for not leaking internal confidential discussions to the media is pretty dumb. Just risk his job and future career?

He clearly opposed the deal. What more could he do?

Finley probably knew how this was gonna play out and knew he was next in line.

The fire Nico part was only part one. The second part is sell the team.

It’s why I’m not still a fan. I know all billionaires are shitty people to one extent or another but the Adelson family actively supports genocide and donated at least tens of millions to the Trump campaign. I can never root for a team owned by garbage like that.

That’s true, and I’m not gonna spend any money on the Mavs as long as they own the team. But I will root for them to win

The choice is yours, friend.

I was a lifelong fan. Dirk pulled this franchise to a title despite Cuban’s horrible mismanagement. Then Cuban sold to some of the worst people on earth. Zionist billionaires intent on backing Trump and his agenda.

There are no good billionaires, but I was willing to ignore it because Luka would play for my team every night for the next decade. They took that from us.

It doesn’t matter the reason why. Dumont will pay a former FBI PR person to shift blame to Nico and try to salvage fans.

I’m not going on that journey.

But Nico is just one cancer. The adelsons and dumont are the other and they’re still firmly entrenched. They’re going to drain the franchise and be terrible owners and that sucks so the underlying problem still remains.

Twitter is a weird place

Nico. His mom. And his wife

There are 2 more people like Chuck Klosterman?

I’ve seen one dude on Twitter claim to be one, but it’s gotta be bait

Probably just ragebait bots.

Might be a few in the Hawks fanbase, though.

Nobody said Nico pulled rank on the owner. That doesn’t even make sense. The truth is that Dumont is dumb and trusted Nico. And Nico abused that trust by talking Dumont into the Luka trade. And keeping all talks secret and confined so Dumont couldn’t get any other opinion.

huh? where are you getting that?

this statement says Finley voiced the most opposition when it was presented…it doesn’t say that it was presented prior to the trade occurring

but is also frequently described as the member of Harrison’s front office team, league sources say, who voiced the strongest opposition to the Dončić deal at the time it was presented.

do you have some other source?