https://twitter.com/dallasmavs/status/11...4200083457

I think Kristaps deserves his own thread like Luka, so we can drop any little tidbit connected to him in one place without cluttering the board.

https://twitter.com/BenRogers/status/117...5217852417

https://twitter.com/tim_cato/status/1178717494116278273
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Edit: how are we supposed to emb twitter post? I'm kind lost.

Hello everyone. 

As you all may know., I am a Filmmaker building a Media Production Company. That company? 

Qabick Cents Productions. At the bottom of the page you can link to it, and at the top in the url, you can see it is the parent site to this. 

I just got my cast yesterday with my first round of auditions and the second round is friday to determine for sure which roles they will play(as a couple of the women each performed multiple characters well, so I am going to find the absolute best one for each.)

I also just got my first Musician/Singer-Songwriter, the amazingly talented Kristen Lynn, on board for my company. We are working out the contract details now and it will be signed soon. 

I am going to re-record this track, Catch Me, and help produce a few singles of hers. I will engineer them, and then publish them and release them as a Qabick Cents Production. 

This song will be featured on my short film, Secret Admirer, that will begin shooting in two weeks. 

Here is a sample of this song and her beautiful voice! I am working hard to accomplish a lot of things and sort of mastermind this all. 

I wanted to share this with you all so you can see what it is I am working on and do with this Media Production Company outside of DallasMavsBasketball.com

I hope you appreciate how cool this song is and great it is to officially have my first musician I will be publishing soon. 

I hope you like it, and I hope this gets you excited to see my upcoming film as well

ENJOY!

Livestream at Mavs.com

“People are justifiably excited — we’re excited internally,” coach Rick Carlisle told Mavs.com. “A big part of my job is to manage expectations on a day-to-day basis, but I’ll just say that the excitement is justified.

I have been rather busy recently, so I haven't had to time to really address this. I didn't mean to let this linger as long as it did. The first (less than) two weeks of this whole thing and its existence, Mike Fisher and I were playing phone tag a lot, haha. Mostly my fault, I have a huge workload and my schedule is filled so that I have one class/work and then have fifteen min to get to the next and so on. I appreciate all of your patience with me in various board issues, and also just the overall future development of this site and its longevity and our plans with our logo/name and our association with Mike Fisher. 

I know that some of you are frustrated with the other site at SI. That is precisely why I built this. I did so to help Fish, and to keep the band together. I have been on these boards and lurked a lot, had various aliases that you all are mostly aware of now. I have known(internet kind of known, haha) you all for nearly two decades of my life. I owe all of my experiences and good times and arguments that families have to Mike Fister. He created this community and he worked hard at the various journalist companies he has worked for. 

Working in Media isn't easy. I am personally building a Media Production Company, myself. Qabick Cents Productions. The main site of this one. I intend on it having news, music, films, podcasts, articles on every subject imaginable from sports, to religion/philosophy, to politics, to business, to all entertainment fields, etc. So some of the articles on it now are disproportionately heavy in the religious philosophical stuff, but that is just because I have two great writers in that field that do that now. I am trying to get more sports articles and would LOVE anyone's interest in writing Mavs articles or NBA or any sports article on my main site. Heck, about any subject you are passionate about, so long as you have the writing chops to write a well-written article, and handle some editorial scrutiny for quality, then I would love to have any of you and your interests shared as published articles on my site. Once I see you can write great articles without much help in editing for grammar, and/or you aren't going off the rails too much, and it remains professional? I then get out of my writer's way and let them have the freedom to explore writing what they want to write about. It will continue to grow, and say think of TheRinger. How they have tons of podcasts on all types of subjects. I will continue to find various content producers and musicians and my films I am making etc... 

I am saying this all because I know how hard it is to build and then sustain. I never built this forum to be a form of competition against Mike Fisher. He and I are like cousins. I spoke to him on the phone and I asked him about the logo situation and he approves and likes the idea of the similar logo yet different. So we are in a good communication with him now, and he knows I am on his side to help him and his site as well. I am Mesa Maverick over there right now, but I will create a profile named Magickian over there too. (which btw a quick sidebar... Magic works.. but Magick is better... because the word is just Magician with an extra "k" in there and it is pronounced phonetically the same way.) 

I will begin to post over there and make an announcement there too showing our solidarity in this. I am just so busy, each step sometimes takes me a bit at a time that I can carve in for things. I just held my auditions for my first film yesterday and essentially got my cast, so that is exciting but that is an idea of the things I am working on, and why I am sometimes slow to contribute to posts. Not to mention I am doing a lot of admin work, I am hosting a weekly radio show on KMSA 91.3 FM where I am the Operations Manager, I am working for CMU-TV, I am the Vice President of my Honor Society, I am the Club Advisory Board Representative for Circle K International(a charity), I am in the Film Production Club, AND I am FOUNDING a Trail: Hiking and Running Club on campus as well. I am working on two films of mine, though one will shoot first, I am building and working with three companies, and doing full time school workload with fifteen credits. So yeah... I am busy haha 

We all wouldn't be here without Fish, and I owe that to him, and I made this site for him. Since it will remain autonomous from SI/Maven, we can still be on a good working/family style relationship with one another. The logo and wording and stylings can stay the same, but we should honor Fish the right way too. I would like it if someone would be interested in stepping up to write posts in this forum, for his articles much like things were done at the old sites. So this person would take the responsibility of taking each brand new article that Fish writes over at the main site over there, and making a blog thread post here with the link to the article and we can have a discussion within that thread about the things brought up into the article. If it is NBA and Mavs related it will be posted here, and if it is Cowboys or anything else? it goes in ROTW. 

OR we could create a Cowboy section if that's what yall want to keep it even out of ROTW... but I don't want to blend the Football stuff into this specific NBA forum... so let me know what yall want to do there. 

So then we are posting his article links and starting a thread here and this way some traffic goes back to Fish, and I think we owe that respect to him. 

I know some of you are frustrated, and I am okay with venting... but I am not in opposition of him, and I don't need to attack their boards over there and the styles it is, and I hope we can all move on from doing that as well. We should post in both places. I get this is easier to read format-wise and I am in agreement there, but they are still having some good conversations over there too. So let us all please have some more respect for what they are doing over there too. We can enjoy this site without having to attack their thing. Fish helped bring us all together in the first place, and I know some of you are not fans of his anymore which is odd considering it was always his community from his sites he built, which is why we came... I know the Mavs are the true core of why we are together... but Fish deserves respect and recognition for bringing us together in the first place. So this site will go on and always exist. I will make sure of it. As the years go on, I want the world to keep knowing we are a team with Fish and not against him. 

You all may not always like me neither hahaha I am not perfect. I am busy, so I won't always be instant to respond. I am doing a lot of things too. I know that everyone has been REALLY super nice to me and I appreciate all of the kind words and support I truly do... but we all may argue about Mavs once the season gets going and sometimes I may not be the nicest or best person you like that day hahaha. But that's why we should just remain like a family. Families fight and they argue and they have disagreements... but at the end of the day we sit down together and break bread together. 

Thank you all for coming on this journey with me on this new site. We will continue to grow and I have big plans for this exact Mavs forum, as well as the parent company and main site too.

https://twitter.com/DwainPrice/status/11...6604843008

So which player, not named Luka or Kristaps, is the most important to the Mavs having a "very successful" season? 

Why do you think this player is more critical to the season than the others?

Note: I listed the players in order of salary and could only choose ten, so I left off the rookies and Courtney Lee.

https://twitter.com/TheSteinLine/status/...7335234565

First major player for the Lakers with an injury in his foot. We know all too well after Curry, with how stress fractures in the lower extremities can turn into a season long affair.


Kuzma will be reevaluated in 6-8 weeks. Huge blow to the Lakers.

Fish announed it’ll be on Sunday October 6th. Doors open at 11:30am. Can’t wait to see the group play for the first time this season in person!!! Need some banana emoticons placed here! Edit: Official details on open practice here:

Official details on the open practice.