Cuban has sold the Mavs to Adelson-Dumont Family

[mvossman]

Someone posted a graphic over the summer showing what each team had spent total on their roster over the past 5 seasons combined.  The Mavericks were 30th.  We have been the stingiest franchise in the NBA.  I think Cuban would like to win but he doesn't want to spend the money to be competitive.  Most decisions since 2011 can be easily explained by our owner's financial priorities.  Plan powder always kept us well away from the luxury tax.  Jalen Brunson leaving kept us away from the luxury tax.

We tried to sign Thybulle with part of the MLE but then gave up on further improvement when Portland matched.  Either Paul Reed or Dario Saric would have been really useful to our team this season.  We could have obtained either by using a chunk of the MLE.  Instead, we opted to sign outside veterans only for the minimum.  Our roster outside of Luka and Kyrie is pretty terrible.  Our winning record is the result of two great players carrying an otherwise pitiful roster.  

Mark Cuban was once a fun, energetic owner.  He wanted to win above all else.  That man disappeared more than a decade ago. The Mavericks would be better off if he would buy an island somewhere, stay there and shut up.

To be honest, Paul Reed or Saric would not have changed the perception of this roster outside of Luka and Kyrie.  They determined what they felt was worth going into tax and went after it.  There was legit value to not going into tax.  There was only about a 5 mil window between not going into tax and the max they could spend after the Williams trade, with significant value in resetting the repeater tax.  There is so much to dislike since the Luka trade, but I have a really hard time finding fault with this last offseason.  Maybe it was totally random that they made a bunch of good decisions this last offseason after making a ton of bad ones in prior years, and it will be a total shit show next year.  If this had come down a year ago, I would be begging for anyone to take over.  I'm not as sure now.