(08-30-2025, 10:38 PM)Ghost of Podkolzin Wrote: Where is everyone who flamed me last offseason for saying OMax isn’t an NBA player?

(08-30-2025, 10:38 PM)Ghost of Podkolzin Wrote: Where is everyone who flamed me last offseason for saying OMax isn’t an NBA player?

(08-31-2025, 09:55 AM)SleepingHero Wrote: I still believe in OMax. Not sure if I flamed you but I think he got a pretty shit end of the stick here.

(08-31-2025, 04:32 PM)F Gump Wrote: I'm not so sure about that. It's not like other NBA teams see strong potential in him either -- any of them could have had him for free with his very modest contract, and not one was interested. 

To me he looked like a good athlete, but not a good basketball player. He lacked skills, and in the NBA, it's hard to be without the skills and land a role.

(09-01-2025, 01:12 PM)SkenfromLMF Wrote: Is it that or is it that other NBA teams knew what Dallas wanted to do and the choice was: pay to have another team take him; or pay 1 million for the next 3 seasons...
Now I am not sure that I am necessarily comfortable with the evaluation skills of the person who ultimately made that decision, but O-Max will most likely be playing on a minimum contract somewhere.

(09-01-2025, 01:12 PM)SkenfromLMF Wrote: Is it that or is it that other NBA teams knew what Dallas wanted to do and the choice was: pay to have another team take him; or pay 1 million for the next 3 seasons...
Now I am not sure that I am necessarily comfortable with the evaluation skills of the person who ultimately made that decision, but O-Max will most likely be playing on a minimum contract somewhere.

(09-02-2025, 12:45 PM)Chicagojk Wrote: Marc Stein on the Dallas Mavericks starting lineup:
“I do think that at some point that the starting lineup will be tested at some point with Cooper [Flagg] at the 2 and PJ [Washington] at the 3. I feel pretty strongly about that…”
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@DLLS_Mavs

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I have some doubts how effective this will be early in his career, especially without playing with a guy like Kyrie.   Although if he can grow and thrive in this role, it opens up so many more roster building directions.  
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(09-02-2025, 12:45 PM)Chicagojk Wrote: Marc Stein on the Dallas Mavericks starting lineup:
“I do think that at some point that the starting lineup will be tested at some point with Cooper [Flagg] at the 2 and PJ [Washington] at the 3. I feel pretty strongly about that…”
(via
@DLLS_Mavs

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I have some doubts how effective this will be early in his career, especially without playing with a guy like Kyrie.   Although if he can grow and thrive in this role, it opens up so many more roster building directions.  
)

(09-02-2025, 12:45 PM)Chicagojk Wrote: I have some doubts how effective this will be early in his career, especially without playing with a guy like Kyrie.   Although if he can grow and thrive in this role, it opens up so many more roster building directions.  )

(09-02-2025, 03:28 PM)mvossman Wrote: Anybody else have concerns that we don't have an extension with PJ yet?  I was hoping it was a done deal and they were simply waiting for it to be legal to announce, but that does not seem to be the case.

(09-01-2025, 10:27 PM)F Gump Wrote: What you say probably makes my point, rather than contradicts it. 

Any team could have had OMax for free, with a tiny (barely over minimum) contract and at no cost other than to pay the contract. Logically the Mavs were also offering to pay his salary (to get ALL his salary off their cap in future years). Right?

You are saying a team with any interest whatsoever would rather take their chances in free agency (so they would assume NO ONE ELSE has any interest, or not really care) and pay him the minimum out of their own pocket (rather than have his salary paid by Mavs) - to me that (1) makes no sense, and (2) even if true, it says that the value placed on OMax by other teams is tiny, almost non-existent, WHICH WAS MY POINT.

I will add that if there is some value on OMax around the league, and Nico could not even get him moved "with salary paid" by Mavs, his negotiating skills are beyond abysmal. That should be GM 101 level of deal to be able to get done. As bad as I think he is,


I can't imagine even he is THAT bad at getting a basic giveaway deal done.

(09-02-2025, 05:40 PM)myconsumerclub Wrote: I am partial to the Henderson's over on Abrams at Royal lane.

(09-03-2025, 10:34 AM)Smitty Wrote: @ShamsCharania
Dallas Mavericks forward PJ Washington has agreed to a four-year, $90 million contract extension with the franchise, agent Kevin Bradbury of LIFT Sports Management told ESPN. Washington secures a new deal that keeps him in Dallas through 2029-30.