02-07-2025, 01:40 PM
(02-07-2025, 01:35 PM)david75090 Wrote: The reality of the NBA is, players get traded. It can happen. The contracts are assigned to individual teams, but they're contracts to play in the league. There are non-trade contracts, but most aren't. Few players entering the league get to choose where they start out.
15 players per team. Looking around at the Mavs roster, most have been traded or have played on other teams previously. Staying with one team for a career is not common.
These players on the Mavs are our players, however they got to Dallas. Teams aren't one player, they're 15 players plus staffs and other team employees. The next trade the average fan is consulted about, will be the first trade that they're consulted about.
Most didn't like the Luka trade, but, he got traded. There are 15 non-Luka's on the team that haven't done anything wrong and are in no way responsible for the Luka trade.
At some point, fans are going to have to buck-up, and get over it. Myself included. I still like the rest of the guys on the team. I should root for the Mavs, because they've been my team since 1980. Every member of that revolving roster in 1980 came from someplace else, or were drafted. Players have come and gone, some good, some bad. Some got an awful lot of money to play basketball.
Luka will be alright, and make an awful lot of money playing basketball. Just not in Dallas, except when he comes back and kicks some Maverick tail.
This!