NEWS: NBA to punish tampering w/ suspensions, draft pick penalties, voiding contracts

[Scott41theMavs]

Wonder if the Mavs were victims of FA by following the rules...

I personally think FA went really well, so I don't see the Mavs as "victims" really. My biggest complaint from the off season was sitting out of all the trades....though of course I don't know what was really available.

But regardless I am super excited about this and just hope the NBA has the teeth to actually enforce it. Someone will probably have to be made an example of....

I worded it wrong...my bad...I was trying to say the. Mavs got bashed for not executing their original plan of getting the 3rd star and other rumors that were floating around...instead I have seen and heard complaints the Mavs once again screwed up by only getting Wright and Curry...

Mavs did solid this offseason...

I would consider the Mavs' offseason to be... incomplete. I was not aware that they still had a good chunk of the Barnes trade exception. I thought that all went away when they used any of their cap room to sign FAs. Evidently not. I thought their big error, short of convincing someone like Kemba to come here (I'll bet that if they knew how good Luka was going to be this year that more of the top guys would have considered us), was the failure to use the rest of their cap room to sign another player of that Curry/Wright/Boban tier who could have helped us. The Mavs still don't have a competent starting wing, for example, as many have pointed out, and we could use a fifth big who is more of a lay-the-lumber type a la Favors to supplement KP, Maxi, Powell, and Bobi. If the Mavs make good use of the trade exception, which we all presumed was gone, then the offseason, including the great bargain contracts for Maxi and Dodo, becomes an A, and would have been an A+ if we hadn't overpaid Powell in retaining him. Powell is a useful piece for the Mavs, but has negative trade value at that contract price.