02-02-2025, 10:08 AM
The trade is a disaster for the Mavs. Nico and ownership sold us out. But credit where credit is due. Given both teams’ payrolls and the trade rules involved, the trade seems to involve an unprecedented amount of wizardry to both get Dallas out of the tax and keep a trade with a very high payroll partner legal. It’s a technical and financial masterclass from Nico and probably the most impressive trade in NBA history from that perspective. Too bad the result is the destruction of a team for a decade or more all to save a little money in the short term. Private equity ownership sucks.
I really expect the new owners to flip the team soon. It’s how private equity operates. Most likely, ownership decided the casino angle in Texas was dead and got cheap. Cuban’s sale price was pretty reasonable. The owners can still move on and make a little profit. They have no civic roots in this community best I can tell and don’t really seem to be in it for fun. Maybe they move to Vegas instead, but that makes no sense. Dallas/Fort Worth is just too massive a market for something like that even without casino gambling in Texas.
I really expect the new owners to flip the team soon. It’s how private equity operates. Most likely, ownership decided the casino angle in Texas was dead and got cheap. Cuban’s sale price was pretty reasonable. The owners can still move on and make a little profit. They have no civic roots in this community best I can tell and don’t really seem to be in it for fun. Maybe they move to Vegas instead, but that makes no sense. Dallas/Fort Worth is just too massive a market for something like that even without casino gambling in Texas.