Luka Dealt to Lakers: Nico Harrison is a Basketball Terrorist

[ThisIStheYear]

The Cowboys will return to relevance before the Mavs for sure. Football teams turn around overnight all the time. Basketball takes a long time. You have to get lucky and find maybe the one player in the draft that comes around every three years or so on average that you can build a contender around. Then you need to wait about 3-4 years for them to mature. At the same time, you need a complimentary star (easier to find, but still difficult). Finally, the others. It’s not a slam dunk that you can find the set of role players to fit perfectly around your superstar, but a competent organization should be able to navigate that challenge, though it might take a couple of years. This is all even more difficult, actually impossible to do, if you don’t control your draft picks for 4 years. The way I see it, if the Mavs don’t land a potential top 5 player in one of the next two drafts, the best case window to becoming a team worthy of fans won’t open for another 7-8 years, and probably longer. And we all know the Mavs can’t pull that off in the next two years. Get ready for a long period of irrelevance.