It was so many people thinking Kidd had no part in it yesterday when they heard the news. Nico wouldn’t have him front and center with him during his interview after the trade if Kidd didn’t agree with him.

I think ownership just really doesn’t know about basketball and was just parroting what Nico told them. They want the Mavericks to just be an investment that doesn’t require much managing. That’s why they trusted Nico and you see unlimited control they are giving Ujiri.

I wish the owners were smarter people so the trade didn’t happen, but trusting your best basketball mind isn’t a bad idea either. They just got screwed because they though Nico was a genius because they made it to the Finals.

With Ujiri in place now, I’m pretty content to just let him cook while ownership is hands off

I don’t even know what that is supposed to mean in the context of this statement, it seems like a complete tangent

Is it supposed to be like some additional justification for firing him? They don’t need to provide any justification, and also it was a mutual decision

Alright well I guess Masai needs to fire ownership as well

Yeah, it’s the second time today I see this sentiment - the ass hat owners signed off on it, and they are ultimately calling the shots. Sell the team to ”restart”.

Depends on how hands off they will be going forward

I heard no one went to Kidd’s birthday party either.

Luka didn’t help himself, only now after the trade he’s taking his fitness more seriously.

Don’t worry, we do give him shit. His saving grace was that 2011 ring, hasn’t done much after that.

He does. He can go on whatever podcast or talk show he wants. The fanbase blames him for blowing up the championship team, terrible decisions for Dirk’s twilight years, hiring Nico & Kidd, selling to the Adelsons & then acting like his hands were clean the whole time

Oh us Mavs fans are livid with Cuban lol. Complete mismanagement from 2011 on outside of the Luka draft trade. Then hires an incompetent snake GM then sells to an incompetent group. He has tried to do a PR tour recently, but no mavs fans are buying it.

Yes and no.

Cuban’s constant meddling prevented the ability to hire an effective GM because he was the defacto GM. And while he was a fan of the game, he tended to get emotional and connected to the players which created situations where he wasn’t willing to do what needed to be done. He wasn’t ever going to remove himself so the team was limited by his vision of what team construction looked like.

I know there were some sour grapes, but his removal as president of operations was step 1 towards allowing the team to be rebuilt, it unfortunately cost us Luka but that may have been a necessary evil to allow the house of cards to fall.

“When someone shows you who they are, believe them.”

Jason Kidd has shown everybody who he is so many times already. The only people that buy his spin are not paying attention or don’t care. No serious NBA organization should want him around.

Snake like behavior. Then he wanted to weasel his way to be president of the Mavs. Dumont maybe dumb but good to see he’s not that dumb

I guarantee the conversation was something like this hey jay what do you feel about Luca I feel like he does not take care of his body I feel like he does not Defense I feel like that as he came into the league he has not improved at all and in a single asset of his game and it’s hampers our ability of our team to win because of his behavior and the culture that he sets and then Nico said would you think we should trade him oh yeah yeah he can be traded cause J. kid being in the NBA long time knows anyone can be traded and then yeah he traded him for what he traded him for

Pretty sure there was a decent amount of reporting that Finley was very against the trade and learned of it around the same time Cuban did. But who knows

It would still have been a complete disaster, 4 or 5 picks isn’t close to the value of Luka, AD is a negative asset. There really isn’t a package the Lakers could’ve put together that was good. Even Reaves AD and picks isn’t enough. You would need a borderline star, very promising young player and then 4-5 picks to even make a case IMO.

That’d make him a top 20 nba player of all time. Damn

Unlikely. Barkley, Malone, Iverson, Stockton, Harden, Paul just to name a few.

Luka isn’t better than those guys. Maybe he gets there but not unless something changes