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[mvossman]

So I HOPE the fact that our vets are much better positioned to be contributors on a championship level team, compared to the group that surrounded Luka his rookie year. I do not hear much about a savior syndrome with Flagg as much as it is having a high level piece contributing to a team. My hope is that Flagg AD and Christie combine to be better than Luka and whoever the 16th or so pick would have been. IF they can show something in that regard then the trade can be viewed as successful - as a Mavs fan just having a competitive trade is much better than trading Kidd, or getting Eric Montross, or Lamar Odom or Rajon Rondo... anything is better than trading Dale Ellis for a Referee.

I think without the blind luck of landing Flagg in the lottery the massive fan apathy regarding this team would have continued for the foreseeable future.  Flagg was a savior from the standpoint of fan interest.

I strongly disagree with the idea that Flagg is somehow part of the Luka trade.  The odds of them landing Flagg at the point of that trade was maybe 200 to 1.  It took catastrophic injuries and another terrible trade (Grimes) for the team to even be in the lottery and then of course the less than 2% chance to land him.  Nobody says we traded Brunson for Lively.  Thats not how it works.