08-31-2026, 05:29 PM
Similarly, whatever you think of Cuban’s stewardship of the Mavericks during his tenure, we can all agree he would not have greenlit the trade of Luka Dončić to the Lakers as Patrick Dumont did. It took a Cooper Flagg lottery mulligan to begin to stanch the civic bleeding among Mavericks fans after Dončiċ’s departure. I will not believe that the team’s new owners decided they weren’t going to pay Dončić the $350 million extension for which he was eligible and, thus, were quite amenable when told by then-general manager Nico Harrison that he wanted to move on from the young star.
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