Trade & Free Agency 2026/2027

[Winter]

Since you chose to call me out so aggressively and directly, I’ll respond. Nellie had his moments (iirc you weren’t the bozo who called Nellie a gimmick hire, which is a great way to hang an “I am a complete dumbass” on oneself), as did Donnie (freaking Dirk Werner Nowitzki and Luka Doncic to start with) but Donnie was obviously hampered big time by Cuban’s smartest guy in the room schtick. The catalog of fumbles and bad decisions on the part of the Cuban/Donnie regime is encyclopedic, which you surely knew as a longtime Mavs fan, to say nothing of Sonju and Zaccanelli. 

It would have been nice to get Presti, Pop, Riley, or the Memphis guy as our new basketball man. Since those (and dodged-a-bullet Stevens) weren’t available, they got the best who was most available. A fair number of folks here are acting like Nico or some other of our, yes, crappy prior regimes was still here, second guessing the moves, etc. How many of those guys have built a championship roster? How many have picked the future All-Star from outside the top five in various drafts like Schmitz has? I’m sorry, believing that those two guys know how to build a team better than any of us armchair GMs (even FGump and Dan!) is simple above-water cognitive ability. I may disagree with some stuff M&M do, but the right response is to shrug and see how the vision plays out.

Speak it, brother... and amen.