03-04-2025, 06:11 AM
(03-04-2025, 05:33 AM)omahen Wrote: Of course it all could be just a series of unfortunate events, but Mavs have been already one of most injured teams last seasons, which was even surpassed this season.
Casey Smith case was covered by both Cato and Stein last season. I didn't pay too much attention, because naturally I am not that familiar with inner workings of the organisation. But looking at it now, it is obvious there was a reason they were reporting it which is likely known to inner circles of the league. It all started by his reduced role (removed from team) beginning of last season, which ended by him leaving to NY at the end of last season.
I am no longer The Athletic subscriber, but the article below probably has more details.
Dallas Mavericks’ athletic trainer Casey Smith won’t continue in longtime role: Sources - The Athletic
Aggregated source with a brief summary of the case (no details):
Mavs: Dallas makes intriguing coaching decision that will surprise Luka Doncic
MacMahon was also on this, throwing some foggy comments not everything was ok with this
https://larrybrownsports.com/basketball/...ith/621764
https://www.reddit.com/r/Mavericks/comme..._with_the/
Thanks for sharing, i had forgotten about that Athletic piece. If it’s the season for throwing daggers at Nico, he could be blamed for Smith’s departure as well lol. Per the article, Nico felt that CS was too intertwined in organizational things not related to player health and in general was trying to create a more traditional front office structure as opposed to what had been going on under Donnie.
There is still no indication if something happened or if there was a falling out of sorts. CS may have simply decided he didn’t want to be in Dallas anymore after the organizational changes…who knows…
“BE CURIOUS, NOT JUDGMENTAL…”