08-16-2025, 03:24 PM
I think the debate over the Perot and Adelson regimes will boil down to how their big trades of absolute superstars work out...
Is trading Jason Kidd or trading Luka Doncic going to be the worst trade of absolute superstars?
Carter is fortunate in that the Aguirre trade (while the biggest star of the franchise to that point) was not one of the best players in the league at the time of the trade. Luka and Kidd definitively fall in the category of trading a top 5 star.
IMO the biggest blunder on Carter's resume was extending Roy Tarpley when Sam Perkins' contract was up sooner. Perkins felt slighted (Skip Clueless didn't help at all in the media) and basically non-negotiated his way to the Lakers.
Aguirre gone, Perkins gone, and Tarpley will crash the franchise twice.
All that said, I still rank Carter ahead of Cuban, because Cuban did not keep the '11 team together and wasted the remainder of Dirk's career when Dirk was playing for $5 million per to make the team better.
Wasting the Trade Exception from the Harrison Barnes trade was criminal and having Skin Wade telling everyone that Dallas was going to do something big that summer was in the words of the immortal Chuck, a "TURRIBLE LOOK"
Is trading Jason Kidd or trading Luka Doncic going to be the worst trade of absolute superstars?
Carter is fortunate in that the Aguirre trade (while the biggest star of the franchise to that point) was not one of the best players in the league at the time of the trade. Luka and Kidd definitively fall in the category of trading a top 5 star.
IMO the biggest blunder on Carter's resume was extending Roy Tarpley when Sam Perkins' contract was up sooner. Perkins felt slighted (Skip Clueless didn't help at all in the media) and basically non-negotiated his way to the Lakers.
Aguirre gone, Perkins gone, and Tarpley will crash the franchise twice.
All that said, I still rank Carter ahead of Cuban, because Cuban did not keep the '11 team together and wasted the remainder of Dirk's career when Dirk was playing for $5 million per to make the team better.
Wasting the Trade Exception from the Harrison Barnes trade was criminal and having Skin Wade telling everyone that Dallas was going to do something big that summer was in the words of the immortal Chuck, a "TURRIBLE LOOK"
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