Luka Dealt to Lakers: Nico Harrison is a Basketball Terrorist

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the mavs (and the nba as a whole) are just a small business compared to the gambling industry. mavs were just purchased and used as a leverage imho.

I don't think there's any gambling leverage from owning the Mavs.

Yes, I think the Adelsons want to create a gambling footprint in Dallas. But I don't think owning the Mavs moves the needle at all on the gambling question. The vast majority of Texas lawmakers making such decisions don't care at all about the Mavs.

The Mavs do have value re the local real estate play (which is a different issue and different lawmakers). Of course, they've totally crapped on that value now, and lessened a large part of whatever leverage they may have had there, with the way they are operating the franchise these last weeks and making it less attractive to the Dallas public.