CtrlAltDelightfull

544 | 3 hours ago

Haven’t Mavs fans had enough??

defiantcross | Suns

137 | 3 hours ago

yeah goddamn, in the same week no less.

Illionaires

57 | 3 hours ago

Nico’s masterplan

TribeOnAQuest | Hornets

11 | 2 hours ago

Did Nico have a role in trading Brunson? Not sure on the timeline

FrenchBread5941

22 | 2 hours ago

Brunson didn’t get traded. He left as a free agent. Nico is not a smart man.

Fickle_Meet_7154 | Mavericks

22 | 2 hours ago

Brunson left because Nico fumbled his contract. December of that year brunsons team tried to get a 4 year deal that was on the cheap. Nico didn’t take it then he left for free in the off season.

lordb4 | DAL

4 | an hour ago

I thought it was Donnie Jr who fumbled his contract earlier though Nico screwed it later.

Fickle_Meet_7154 | Mavericks

5 | an hour ago

Double headed kinda deal. Donnie didn’t make him a RFA for some reason. Which isn’t nearly as egregious as not signing brunson to a team friendly deal that brunson himself offered to sign

Meatloafxx | Warriors

19 | 3 hours ago

Circumstantial occurrences seem to enjoy beating a dead horse

bmoreboy410 | Mavericks

2 | an hour ago

Yes. I should probably just leave r/nba. It just makes it worse giving bad news all the time.

imdrzoidberg | Lakers

1 | 17 minutes ago

Imagine if a team could get both those guys. You’d have to be some kind of wunder-GM to pull that off.

Yellow_blackjack

489 | 3 hours ago

Picked in the same draft by the same team … got to be one of the all time drafts by a team

New2Hobbies

99 | 3 hours ago

What draft years even come close? ‘86 Cavs? ‘08 Sonics? ‘96 Lakers?

torriattet

160 | 3 hours ago

2026 OKC

HereIGoAgain_1x10 | Cavaliers

33 | 2 hours ago

Good, the state of that team now they need all the help they can get

LetgomyEkko

11 | 2 hours ago

inb4

jocro | Thunder

37 | 2 hours ago

remains to be seen but 22 OKC is Chet + Dub, with a little JWill sprinkled in for garnish (avoid the Ous dessert)

Silverward

8 | an hour ago

That’s G League MVP Ous, to you.

SkillIsTooLow | Supersonics

11 | 2 hours ago

Blazers ‘06, they got Aldridge and BRoy.

afjecj | Magic

19 | 2 hours ago

Aldridge and broy were excellent choices but even now based off the totality of their careers I think brunson and Luka are better

BoJaNYK | NYK

9 | an hour ago

Yeah, much better. Luka is easily the best player of the four, and Brunson is 3rd at worst.

HE_A_FAN_HE_A_FAN | United States

9 | 2 hours ago

84 Bulls and 03 Cavs

lazymyke | Suns

7 | 3 hours ago

Suns 2016 draft for sure

chewie_33 | Supersonics

4 | an hour ago

87 bulls. Horace Grant and Scottie Pippen in the same draft is just filthy.

rwoteit | Vancouver Grizzlies

2 | an hour ago

WB and Ibaka?

Big-Equal7497 | Warriors

2 | an hour ago

2016 Suns. Dragan Bender and Marquees Chriss in the same draft 😳

BKNas

22 | 3 hours ago

One of the all-time bungles by a team

exradical

17 | an hour ago

Surely the Mavs will get a chip or two out of such a great draft

porncollecter69 | Mavericks

1 | 31 minutes ago

I was so vehement to pay Brunson asap and was vocal about it just because he plays so well with Luka, Luka needed a good 2nd ball handler that was clear to everybody who followed the Mavs but I swear we have the most incompetent loser bitch shit FO even before Nico.

mamakos84

1 | 28 minutes ago

Luka was picked by the Hawks? Same draft night haul may be the way to word this

amh85 | NBA

1 | 16 minutes ago

He was effectively picked by Dallas. Hawks picked the guy the Mavs wanted in the trade

throwawaymycareer93 | Warriors

1 | 3 minutes ago

The team that drafted them must be doing really well then, right?

defeated_engineer

219 | 3 hours ago

This is your reminder that Nico Harrison did not offer ⁵⁵⁄₅ to Brunson, a contract smaller than he gave to Dwight Powell.

Algorechan | Knicks

44 | 2 hours ago

What u mean, Dwight Powell is a goat C

sercialinho | Mavericks

17 | 2 hours ago

Longest tenured Mav … himself a reminder of a less-than-great trade

chewytime

4 | an hour ago

Feel like the franchise is determined to give Dwight a statue or something. No idea how he’s stayed with the team for so long.

trickfield | Mavericks

11 | an hour ago

I hate nico with every part of my being. This statement is in no way a defense to Nico. Instead its an indictment of Cuban because Marc Stein reported that Cuban was the one not willing to offer Brunson that contract.

FireFlyz351 | Slovenia

5 | an hour ago

And correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t a big part of us losing Brunson because Donnie Nelson didn’t give him a typical contract with a 4th year team option?

So it was a combo fuck up between Donnie and Nico.

olfactoid

1 | 29 minutes ago

Yeah, I think Cuban bears the most responsibility for the Brunson debacle by far. Nico had his chances, also, and he had plenty of time to convince cuban and fix the problem to be completely free from blame.

botebote77

2 | an hour ago

was this the ³⁄₃₃ Powell got? iirc Donnie was still the GM that time. Dwight is getting 4m per rn. but fk it. FK Nico

Much_Purchase_8737

1 | 4 minutes ago

It was mainly Mark Cuban who fucked it up from what JB said. He straight up didn’t even talk to Brunson about anything.

HungryPercentage1667 | Knicks

197 | 3 hours ago

What the mavs could have had

maverickhistorian | Lakers

57 | 2 hours ago

The vibes could have been immaculate

BatmanNoPrep | Lakers

53 | 2 hours ago

They literally were. Mavs made the WCF with these two as the best players on the team.

theraarman | Celtics

20 | 2 hours ago

And the finals with one of them

sercialinho | Mavericks

10 | 2 hours ago

Wow, I wouldn’t have expected u/maverickhistorian would have switched flair!

(Though I am mostly keeping mine so it’s clear all criticism comes from within the fanbase, not from the outside. Fire Nico ✅, Sell the team 🟥!)

maverickhistorian | Lakers

26 | an hour ago

I never used a flair bc the username spoke for itself but here I am.. rocked like a hurricane

Marticyde

1 | an hour ago

Tbf Brunson would never gone to his current level behind Luka but yeah…

Fuck you Nico

getcourseherodocs

1 | 25 minutes ago

Maybe, maybe not. We see Reaves balling, and Kyrie balled. So this argument doesnt have as much steam as it used to

hawk8024 | Mavericks

150 | 3 hours ago

Nico you absolute pillock

Methamine | Knicks

123 | 3 hours ago

mavs jokes are low hanging fruit but do we think they could have existed on the same team.

actually. they probably could have. never mind

SwizzGod | Lakers

74 | 3 hours ago

😂 without a doubt. Look at Luka/Kyrie and Luka/Reaves

BatmanNoPrep | Lakers

58 | 2 hours ago

Look at Luka/Brunson! They literally made the WCF in 2022 as the two best players on the team.

Thehelloman0 | Spurs

18 | an hour ago

What’s crazy is Brunson asked the mavs for a 4 year 55 million dollar extension twice. He would have been making like 17M last season if he signed that contract lol

Augchm | 76ers

23 | 2 hours ago

They are two of the best guards in the league, they could’ve been amazing. The question is if Brunson takes this jump in the Mavs with Luka but looking at Reaves I think he does.

Methamine | Knicks

19 | 2 hours ago

Yeah. And Brunson can play without the ball even though he is ball dominant with us. He moves. The reaves thing confirms it for me. And Luka played with kyrie.

xebex1778 | Knicks

9 | 3 hours ago

They could have, but Brunson likely never becomes what he is as Luka’s number two

BKNas

45 | 3 hours ago

Doesn’t seem to hurt Reaves, so I doubt it would’ve hurt Brunson. Luka makes everyone’s life easier on the court

Augchm | 76ers

8 | 2 hours ago

It would’ve been up to Kidd actually playing them together I think.

AnimaniacAssMap | Nets

3 | 2 hours ago

Yeah it wasn’t gonna work

Mammoth-Physics6254 | Mavericks

24 | 3 hours ago

AR is averaging near 30 next too Luka and LeBron. I think Brunson would have been fine it’s crazy in retrospect how much this franchise fumbled the Luka era. Then got bailed out by luck then fumbled that opportunity sad.

FireFlyz351 | Slovenia

2 | 43 minutes ago

Man imagine the team we could’ve had if we had a competent Front office. Brunson instead of Kyrie would be cheaper and that money could’ve gone to other players. Whole lot of what ifs and maybes. Would’ve been fun to see the both of them in their primes together. 🫠

Mammoth-Physics6254 | Mavericks

1 | 6 minutes ago

Yea we also wouldn’t have had to trade DFS so there is a real chance we could have had the 24’ team with DFS + Brunson instead of Kyrie. We’d also have more assets if we needed to make another move. That was the story of the Luka era one step forward 3 steps back.

Methamine | Knicks

1 | 2 hours ago

I agree with this bc I don’t think Brunson breaks out with the numbers and respect he now has. He never proved himself prior to scoring outbursts here and there and that Utah playoffs. Everyone knew reaves was good (maybe not this good) before Luka got there

Mammoth-Physics6254 | Mavericks

10 | 2 hours ago

Uhm what are you talking about we all watched playoffs the year before everyone knew Brunson was very good. He also carried us hard in the regular season the biggest story for us that season was if we could get him back.

SakaSlide

76 | 3 hours ago

Quick get in here before the “imagine having both of these guys on your team” comments and Mavs fans tears flood us out

ActSoggy84 | Lakers

26 | 3 hours ago

Okay but imagine it

insanezain | Raptors

1 | 3 hours ago

thats the whole reason im in here though!

HokageEzio | Knicks

77 | 3 hours ago

Props on the script this week, Adam.

Cuckledoodle | Mavericks

43 | 3 hours ago

xD

StopKarmaWhoringPls | Lakers

16 | 2 hours ago

CUCKED BY NICO!

mehmetem | Lakers

6 | 2 hours ago

BANG! BANG!

DirkDirkDirkDirkDirk | Mavericks

34 | 3 hours ago

I am numb to these now. Good for them.

As an aside, I’m so glad Edey is thriving. I feel like the convo around him before the draft was that he wouldn’t translate well to the NBA.

ezcheesy | Mavericks

20 | 3 hours ago

As a Mavs fan, I think about this often. We drafted two current top 10 players in that draft… Now we are looking to trade AD… At least Cooper is here.

If Donnie Nelson were still with us, I’ve no doubt the Mavs would have kept Jalen Brunson and Luka; and most likely, the Mavs would have won a championship.

snirpie

4 | 2 hours ago

At least Cooper is here.

Mein führer…

kapesaumaga | Mavericks

2 | 2 hours ago

Imagine how bad it’ll be if Mavs didn’t win the lottery. Who was picked at eleven. At least there’s a future without Flagg. Still hurts though.

-GrapeGrass- | Mavericks

18 | 3 hours ago

Imagine the two of them together, wow.

inightyDAB | Luka Dončić

19 | 3 hours ago

Other nominees:

West: Zach Edey (MEM), Anthony Edwards (MIN), Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (OKC), Jamal Murray (DEN) and Austin Reaves (LAL)

East: Desmond Bane (ORL), Jaylen Brown (BOS), Tyler Herro (MIA), Jalen Johnson (ATL) and Pascal Siakam (IND)

CapSRogers | Knicks

9 | 3 hours ago

Thanks, I added to the main post

Morezingis | Timberwolves

1 | 23 minutes ago

Poor Ant. Averaged almost 40ppg this week but we blew so many dumb leads that no way could he get it with a 2-2 record.

Responsible_Focus424 | Lakers

16 | 3 hours ago

Incoming OKC fan downvotes.

afjecj | Magic

13 | 3 hours ago

Why would they downvote this? Shai has his worst game in like a month

CrippledBanana | Canada

10 | 3 hours ago

No need for this until it shows up my friend

Vnaux | OKC

7 | 3 hours ago

Post has 96% upvote rn, literally just making stuff up to get mad at.

captain_ahabb | Lakers

4 | 3 hours ago

I’m already tired of them constantly trying to beef with us lol

Appropriate_Ice_2433 | Lakers

3 | 3 hours ago

They seem to not know to deal with the hate their team gets for being great.

Laker fans understand it all too well.

rwoteit | Vancouver Grizzlies

1 | an hour ago

Probably because they got hate for being bad then hate for being good then hate for being great they never got the lovein that most teams rising do that’s fine for yall you’re a historic franchise but it would hit different for the rest of us.

doctorontheleft | Thunder

-1 | 3 hours ago

Here you go.

Vegetable_Kale_1331 | SGA

4 | 3 hours ago

Lakers fans think Thunder fans started beefing with Luka AFTER the trade lmao

Victim complex Lakers fans

Top-boy-og

3 | 3 hours ago

Right, I swear it’s the opposite. Luka fans have been spiraling because Luka was the golden boy of the 2018 draft and then randomly 2 seasons ago SGA emerged and as of now has done everything Luka was supposed to do, and is likely gonna block Luka from ever achieving anything going forward. I get why they’re in their feels

Vegetable_Kale_1331 | SGA

-5 | 2 hours ago

It took 6 weeks and after playing the Clippers, Mavericks and G League Pelicans, Luka finally got his first player of the week!

Congrats

AuroraPo | Lakers

8 | 2 hours ago

Insufferable as always.

Vegetable_Kale_1331 | SGA

-1 | 2 hours ago

Welcome back, you went missing for a while after the Thunder dog walked the Lakers!

AuroraPo | Lakers

1 | 2 hours ago

You win some, you lose some.

Vegetable_Kale_1331 | SGA

1 | an hour ago

Keep your head up bud!

JamesLebron372

-8 | 2 hours ago

Yep, SGA is better on offense and defense. Meanwhile Luka will never win a championship with his heliocentric, no defense style. Mavs fans should thank Nico for getting rid of a defensive cone who was disappointing year after year.

captain_ahabb | Lakers

0 | 2 hours ago

Yeah but it’s hilariously one-sided. We don’t care about the Thunder or SGA at all. If anything, I appreciate SGA for taking an MVP away from Jokic.

Vegetable_Kale_1331 | SGA

5 | 2 hours ago

Your Laker buddy is the one who brought up OKC fans lmao

captain_ahabb | Lakers

1 | 2 hours ago

Yeah bc you guys are being annoying out of nowhere

Vegetable_Kale_1331 | SGA

5 | 2 hours ago

I guess reread what I originally wrote

captain_ahabb | Lakers

3 | 2 hours ago

I’m a very team-centric fan so I find player-centric fandom hard to understand sometimes.

Vegetable_Kale_1331 | SGA

6 | an hour ago

tbf, the Lakers just inherited the Luka/Thunder beef. It wasn’t like the Thunder and Lakers fans were beefing before that.

captain_ahabb | Lakers

3 | an hour ago

Yeah I wasn’t paying close enough attention to know that there was beef there lol

rwoteit | Vancouver Grizzlies

3 | an hour ago

Your problem is thinking their beefing with Lakers fans and not 77 stans who’ve been targetting them for years.

libertydabbing | OKC

0 | 2 hours ago

I genuinely don’t mind Luka. I honestly like him and think he’s good for basketball. He definitely deserved the award this week.

The only reason that OKC fans are annoyed with Luka is because he plays the brand of basketball everyone shits on Shai for. It’s just an annoying double standard.

captain_ahabb | Lakers

1 | 2 hours ago

I think people shit on Luka too, SGA just gets more attention because OKC just won the title.

sobanoodle-1 | Knicks

14 | 3 hours ago

The Brunson burner is always lit

EbolaDP

11 | 3 hours ago

Luka player of the week posting is back where his stats absolutely dick slap whoever the other player is.

EggersIsland | Knicks

2 | 3 hours ago

Lmao you’re not wrong JFC he’s been insane this year

AussieTheHedgehog10 | Lakers

7 | 3 hours ago

What could have been… sigh

New-Force6746

5 | 3 hours ago

Imagine if a team drafted both these guys in the same draft that would be bonkers.

PM_ME_UR_RESPECT | Mavericks

6 | 2 hours ago

Why does everything have to be so fucking stupid?

CrippledBanana | Canada

5 | 3 hours ago

Aww was hoping Zach would make it for once just to have a new face for the west lol. That 2nd lac game I guess was just 5 points. He had an insane plus minus that game still though

Ggs both balled an deserved the picks.(not like these matter)

Some-Stranger-7852

2 | an hour ago

Edey was -2 in the Clippers game, I think you are confusing it for some other game (either of the other two games he had insane +/-).

Still, when you are competing vs a guy with an almost 40-10-10 who also didn’t just post empty stats (Luka still had elite +/- in Lakers wins), one pedestrian game is enough to knock you off.

afjecj | Magic

3 | 3 hours ago

Bane nominee let’s go

bmanley620 | Knicks

3 | 3 hours ago

Nico in shambles

smalls_1804 | Knicks

3 | 2 hours ago

I’m getting spoiled watching Brunson. Every game I’m like “huh he’s really not that involved in the game” and then I look up and he has 40

Appropriate_Ice_2433 | Lakers

2 | 3 hours ago

!!! Go Luka

pitcherintherye77

2 | 3 hours ago

Imagine them both in the same team!?That would never happened obviously— maybe someone can just photoshop them together or something.

pitcherintherye77

2 | 3 hours ago

Ya’ll said Nico is a bum GM. Look at him making two teams better simultaneously! Jerry west could never

ablackcloudupahead | Lakers

2 | 3 hours ago

Love that Austin was a nominee. Dude has been incredible

MSHinerb | Mavericks

2 | 2 hours ago

I hope every chair Nico sits in breaks and has the pole fuck him like it he did our team.

AlwaysCallACAB | Slovenia

1 | 3 hours ago

Just let me die in peace 🥹

Daconvix | Knicks

1 | 3 hours ago

My king

myhellcatgotRepod | Hawks

1 | 3 hours ago

Didn’t we got a Luka & Brunson POTW last season too

yem_funk

1 | 2 hours ago

Yep, not that unlikely with 2 top 10 players in different conferences

FinalFrash

1 | 3 hours ago

Someone post this on the Mavs sub

k1ngkoala | Lakers

2 | 2 hours ago

Austin Reaves snubbed again

TroyMatthewJ

1 | 2 hours ago

respectfully oh ok

KnicksShowYo

1 | 2 hours ago

LOOK AWAY MAVS FANS

ChuckMoody | DAL

1 | 2 hours ago

Pain

ositola | Lakers

1 | 2 hours ago

Mavs fans should just avoid this sub

negativelynegative

1 | 2 hours ago

Imagine the two on the same team.

Fickle_Meet_7154 | Mavericks

1 | 2 hours ago

FUCK NICO

GalactusAteMyPlanet

1 | an hour ago

A Nico Harrison master class endorsed and sponsored by Mark Cuban.

kokolupa

1 | an hour ago

I should’ve just stopped caring after Dirk retired… why didn’t I just stop caring after Dirk retired?!?!

bmoreboy410 | Mavericks

1 | an hour ago

Really. As if one of them is not bad enough… 🤦🏽‍♂️

89rjd | NBA

1 | an hour ago

Look away, Mavs fans 🤚🏼

throwaway-keeper

1 | an hour ago

Over this period, stats shown in the graphic of Jalen Brunson compared to Cade Cunningham:

PPG Jalen 28.8 < Cade 33.5

APG Jalen 4.5 < Cade 7.5

3FG% Jalen 40.7% > Cade 39.1%

What am I missing? Did Brunson only win because the team went 4-0 while Pistons went 2-2?

iamjeseus | Knicks

1 | an hour ago

The Brunson burner 🔥🔥

mydrumluck | Knicks

1 | an hour ago

A team with those two on it would be unstoppable.

JimothyLeFleur69420 | Thunder

1 | an hour ago

AR15 got robbed tbh

WinterCareful8525

1 | an hour ago

Imagine a team managed to pair these two!!

cyclopse_zhivago | Knicks

1 | 41 minutes ago

Being a Mavs fan must be insane right now

deets23_ | Celtics

1 | 37 minutes ago

I think Jaylen’s been nominated every damn week so far this season but hasn’t won it still lol

Saucy_Totchie | Knicks

1 | 19 minutes ago

Thanks, Nico

StefonDiggsHS | Mavericks

1 | 17 minutes ago

As a Mavs/Vikings fan im having a real bad time

mambamentality29

0 | 2 hours ago

Ok I’m sorry but what. Ik the Pistons went 2-2 over this span and that he had some miscues down the stretch of the 2 losses but how is Cade Cunningham not even a nominee? This is absurd.

Averaged 33.5 ppg / 7.5 apg / 9 rpg on 49.5% and 39.1% splits

EightFortyDaysOf

-4 | 2 hours ago

JJ was better than Brunson, but no worries he’ll probably take it next week

AreaRare1329

-6 | 3 hours ago

jalen johnson robbed

SnarfSniffsStardust | Timberwolves

-6 | 3 hours ago

Flop central

OKC2023champs | Thunder

-10 | 3 hours ago

Would’ve rather it gone to Jalen Johnson but fair

Wonderful-Today1674 | Hawks

19 | 3 hours ago

That wizards game is why it wasn’t

Los Angeles Lakers guard Luka Dončić and New York Knicks guard Jalen Brunson have been named the NBA Western and Eastern Conference Players of the Week, respectively, for Week 6 of the 2025-26 season (Nov. 24-30).