(12-29-2021, 09:49 PM)RasheedsBigWhiteSpot Wrote: Ya know, it doesn't have to be this mutually exclusive situation by where the Mavs either have Luka or boatload of draft assets.  For the most part, Presti accumulated all those by simply not being a shitty GM.  He just kept churning cap space for terrible contracts/usable players + picks.  Then, once the contracts became less onerous, he would deal those for terrible contracts/usable players + picks.  Rinse and repeat.  I mean outside of Paul George, he wasn't dealing a player in their prime.

The Mavs totally could be sitting here with Luka AND 8 FRPs right now.  They also could've passed on THJ, Bullock, etc, last offseason, auctioned off their cap space, with an eye toward hitting a home run two years from now instead of a couple of infield singles.  But, alas, that's what forward thinking organizations do.

So if this trade comes to pass Cuban needs to come out, admit he's Ross Perot Jr. and that he's trading his transcendent player (ala Jason Kidd) simply to make up for letting the "Frank Zaccaneli's" of the world run his team into the ground.