Luka Dealt to Lakers: Nico Harrison is a Basketball Terrorist

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I don't like this idea or the idea of locking the thread.  No one here is a Mavs employee so we don't always need to put on a brave face or pump sunshine.  Sometimes there is a valid reason for negativity and criticism.  Further, pushing away activity on a forum that barely has any is short sighted.

Fully agree on this. Locking and pushing away what is true is never the answer. One has to deal with problems, not pushing them away. Should be fine and democtratic to complain in public ,and this is done towards the GM and not towards the fans on this forum and should never be personal. Fine to be negative as long one gives reasoning for it and it is about basketball and not personal. The line for me is we should not be personal against one another. And there is no better reasoning for the negativity than what happened to Mavs franchise over the last year. In fact pretty much everyone else agrees how hard it must be to be Mavs fan. So its fully reasonable to be negative. Trying to prevent forcefully the negativity i feel is without any substance here and non-constructive. We should just be able to post about negative bad decisions made by the franchise and how bad the team is performing. And it should be free to predict and be negative about upcoming season that things do not look good. Because thats how things are.

One more thing, this topic will be discussed forever going forward, there is i beleive no way to prevent the negativity even if one wants. Fans will always discuss this topic in very negative way even decades from now. If not in this thread, everywhere else yes.