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If it wasn't real, the parties would have denied it. No?

And honestly, I cannot imagine Cuban instigates this idea first. I just think the Dumonts must have been banking on legalized gambling. If Gov. Abbott and Dan Patrick can't be swayed to pursue legalized gambling, the casino idea is dead.

Not much has come out on any of this, but I'm having hard time imagining any other scenario.

I see the gambling angle, but I've never bought it as a "given" to rationalize the motives of the Adelsons moving operations here. Never once has it been mentioned by either them or Cuban - they've always been careful to couch things in terms of "real estate," and while I think them being behind a push to legalize gambling here and find themselves on the ground floor of a gold rush could explain things, I have tried to keep an open mind about other possible motivations, because from my seat, that would've been a huge risk for them. 

I don't want to get political, but for quite a few reasons I kind of feel that Texas will be the very last state in this country to legalize gambling, and again, without going too in depth and taking this forum off topic, I think that's probably for the best. This take has ZERO to do with morality and everything to do with some of my business interests, and I can tell you that when states legalize gambling they frequently shoot themselves in the foot doing so. Almost every economic problem Louisiana has, for example, is due to legalized gambling, but the biggest area of negative impact has been their education system, which is abysmal, and with those two guys out there in Texas on their own personal jihad to privatize education in Texas, let's just say that agenda doesn't mix with the one we're assuming the Adelsons are pushing. Tl;dr: I think it's going to be a WHILE before we see legal gambling in Texas, so I have a difficult time believing a family as rich and plugged in as the Adelsons actually thought it would be so easy. If that was really the play, I think it might have been doomed all along. For that reason, I kind of always bought the idea that they really were just interested in developing an area of Dallas built around the Mavs, as people have promised/tried before and failed to do.