Luka Dealt to Lakers: Nico Harrison is a Basketball Terrorist

[hakeemfaan]

For half a second I thought you were making a serious proposal.  Then it devolved into yet another snarky attack on anyone who dared say something (anything) positive about the Mav's in recent weeks.  The real answer to all of your "why not talk..." questions is easy.  It will be met with posts like this.     

Even if you somehow lived up to your "promise", I have no confidence others will follow suit.  This place is an absolute beating to read.  Somehow the biggest troll (being ignored by many) hasn't been banned yet and one of the biggest contributors to constructive conversation on this board just had a post deleted?  That's incredibly short sighted.  BTW, if we aren't going to ban this guy, could we at least stop quoting him.  Ignore works on posts, but if you guys keep quoting him then he's impossible to ignore.  Stop feeding the obvious troll.

At some point, some of you have to decide what you really want.  This used to be a place known for intelligent basketball conversation.  It has become an echo chamber.  The problem with echo chambers is the people who want to think through issues with more depth (or talk about something other than Luka) will just leave (or be run off).  It's death by a thousand cuts.  Trying to contain this "therapy" to a thread or two would actually be a helpful start.  

You aren't really arguing with anyone.  Show me the post where someone said "way to go Nico, that was awesome".  All you are doing is making this a miserable place to be.  Its maddening and it crowds out reasonable conversation.  Are you more concerned about venting and proving to the world how right you are or are you more concerned about having a decent place for good basketball conversations going forward.  If we insist on the former, we will eventually lose the later.  

If a tree falls in just two threads, but no one is around to read it, does it really matter?

Why is it snarly? I have seen people accusing folks who want to see Nico gone as “bitching” on this thread. I see other attacks over and over saying folks  who are against this trade as not realizing Luka’s faults despite that being a flat out lie.

I am making a straight forward proposal. Why not let the folks who want to vent do so on this thread. I can’t speak for others I am saying I won’t vent or litter those threads ( depending upon one’s perspective) with anti Nico stuff. 

You in your response prove my point. There are plenty of threads you can choose to expand your knowledge in and yet you come back here with “you people have to decide what you want to do”?  Who are you people? I have contributed with my money to the Mavs franchise over the years.  I have contributed monetarily to this board when the drive for funding came up in many times over different iterations of this board. 
 
So please don’t patronize me or tell me how I should or should not be critical of this management and ownership as it currently stands.