Nico End of Season Press Conference:

[khaled1987]

Certainly feels like he thinks the team is a contender as is when heathy.  I have no idea how you could think that.  So I wouldn’t expect a big move this summer.  Obviously not a blow up if Nico remains.

A contender has a bit of wide range of definition. 

You reach conference finals and you can call yourself a contender. After all you were one of the last 4 teams standing.

But it could be like 2019 Portland who beats poor OKC, young Denver and boom, you are in the WCF. But no one took them seriously as a contender.

A full healthy Mavs can be that team if we are being fair. They can a team that could get a couple of favourable series. 

It us what we as a fans prefer to call "pretender".


The thing is, we were a true contender. Undeniably the 2nd best team last year, and improved our roster. We traded that for a chance to be pretender.