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Hey MFFLs. Hope you all are doing better than Sunday thru Thursday.

Now that all the carzyness has stopped for the moment, i would like to thanks everyone for your support to the City of Dallas and for the Mavs as a Team (not as a bussiness).

We had being reading and posting abouth the gm's travesty that happened on sunday and we still trying to fugure things out or maybe giving up on the situation that just happend. We have witnessed how a terrible mistake (and i will try to explain this later), brought a City and may be a Nation together. We have seen MFFLs coming back from retirement to post about their feelings and thoughts... We have seen MFFLs they are done with the team and that won't write a post until (may be they said), the ownership and front office changes... And here they are STILL posting and from the bottom of their heart, caring abouth the team because WE ALL ARE MFFLs.

Comming from a place that fans are everything to a sport's team and the same way around... That goes and fight with opposite team's fans and throw bottles and watever to the court... Yes... I'm talking to you Puertorricans... And just ask PJ Carlesimo... Same as the Euro league mostly soccer. We love our team and want to feel part of it and the way we can have that feeling and keep it is with a face of the team and the face of the city. Dirk was that and still being that even at his retirement.

When Dirk was playing his last games, we all were wondering how are we going to feel or what will be life without Dirk. We all were looking at Luka, but it wasn't the same feeling. That's what we thought. We were looking at a lengend on Dirk that it was, and still is, LOYAL to a team and most importan, LOYAL to the City of Dallas. And that's what we saw in Luka and that's why we mourn about him not being a MAVS as a team member because we all know from the bottom of his heart and by the way his boddy language is, he still a Dallas Maverick.

This movement wasn't fair to anyone. Nor to Luka, nor to MFFLs. And that's why we feel empty at this moment... Even if we see some improvement on the defensive end of the team. Trust is everything everywhere you go and we feel betrayed from the organization and that won't change untill a very good long time and if we feel this way, imagine the players. We feel sad, mad or whatever you wanna call it, because we love something, love some one and one of those is gone. We feel this way because we know that when trust is gone in an organization, no player will want to come and play for it. It will be hard for some of us to root for the Mavericks because we see no one here as a face of the Mavs, as a face of the city and that hurts because no matter what acomplish the team makes, we don't see that person that is here because loves and will die for the city of Dallas (if you know what i'm saying).

I'm sure the front office did not have an idea about the consecuenses' magnitud of the tirade... I ment to say, trade. They did not know that this will bring together a whole city, a whole fanbase and a whole nation. Even the trolls are at awe and haven't post a real troll comement in here beacuse thay know that this could happen to anyone at any time now.

We as a MFFLs and as a human being, will wish the best of luck to Luka and his family.

Thank you Luka for all the excitement you gave us and all the accomplishment you had as a Dallas  Maverick.

Excume for the long nonsense post i did here.

MFFL
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The reality of the NBA is, players get traded. It can happen. The contracts are assigned to individual teams, but they're contracts to play in the league. There are non-trade contracts, but most aren't. Few players entering the league get to choose where they start out.

15 players per team. Looking around at the Mavs roster, most have been traded or have played on other teams previously. Staying with one team for a career is not common.

These players on the Mavs are our players, however they got to Dallas. Teams aren't one player, they're 15 players plus staffs and other team employees. The next trade the average fan is consulted about, will be the first trade that they're consulted about.

Most didn't like the Luka trade, but, he got traded. There are 15 non-Luka's on the team that haven't done anything wrong and are in no way responsible for the Luka trade.

At some point, fans are going to have to buck-up, and get over it. Myself included. I still like the rest of the guys on the team. I should root for the Mavs, because they've been my team since 1980. Every member of that revolving roster in 1980 came from someplace else, or were drafted. Players have come and gone, some good, some bad. Some got an awful lot of money to play basketball.

Luka will be alright, and make an awful lot of money playing basketball. Just not in Dallas, except when he comes back and kicks some Maverick tail.
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(02-07-2025, 01:35 PM)david75090 Wrote: The reality of the NBA is, players get traded. It can happen. The contracts are assigned to individual teams, but they're contracts to play in the league. There are non-trade contracts, but most aren't. Few players entering the league get to choose where they start out.

15 players per team. Looking around at the Mavs roster, most have been traded or have played on other teams previously. Staying with one team for a career is not common.

These players on the Mavs are our players, however they got to Dallas. Teams aren't one player, they're 15 players plus staffs and other team employees. The next trade the average fan is consulted about, will be the first trade that they're consulted about.

Most didn't like the Luka trade, but, he got traded. There are 15 non-Luka's on the team that haven't done anything wrong and are in no way responsible for the Luka trade.

At some point, fans are going to have to buck-up, and get over it. Myself included. I still like the rest of the guys on the team. I should root for the Mavs, because they've been my team since 1980. Every member of that revolving roster in 1980 came from someplace else, or were drafted. Players have come and gone, some good, some bad. Some got an awful lot of money to play basketball.

Luka will be alright, and make an awful lot of money playing basketball. Just not in Dallas, except when he comes back and kicks some Maverick tail.

This!
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(02-07-2025, 01:35 PM)david75090 Wrote: The reality of the NBA is, players get traded. It can happen. The contracts are assigned to individual teams, but they're contracts to play in the league. There are non-trade contracts, but most aren't. Few players entering the league get to choose where they start out.

15 players per team. Looking around at the Mavs roster, most have been traded or have played on other teams previously. Staying with one team for a career is not common.

These players on the Mavs are our players, however they got to Dallas. Teams aren't one player, they're 15 players plus staffs and other team employees. The next trade the average fan is consulted about, will be the first trade that they're consulted about.

Most didn't like the Luka trade, but, he got traded. There are 15 non-Luka's on the team that haven't done anything wrong and are in no way responsible for the Luka trade.

At some point, fans are going to have to buck-up, and get over it. Myself included. I still like the rest of the guys on the team. I should root for the Mavs, because they've been my team since 1980. Every member of that revolving roster in 1980 came from someplace else, or were drafted. Players have come and gone, some good, some bad. Some got an awful lot of money to play basketball.

Luka will be alright, and make an awful lot of money playing basketball. Just not in Dallas, except when he comes back and kicks some Maverick tail.


Nice post.  Imagine if the Mavs and Lakers were to meet in the first round.  It makes me feel sick to think of it.
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(02-07-2025, 01:35 PM)david75090 Wrote: The reality of the NBA is, players get traded. It can happen. The contracts are assigned to individual teams, but they're contracts to play in the league. There are non-trade contracts, but most aren't. Few players entering the league get to choose where they start out.

15 players per team. Looking around at the Mavs roster, most have been traded or have played on other teams previously. Staying with one team for a career is not common.

These players on the Mavs are our players, however they got to Dallas. Teams aren't one player, they're 15 players plus staffs and other team employees. The next trade the average fan is consulted about, will be the first trade that they're consulted about.

Most didn't like the Luka trade, but, he got traded. There are 15 non-Luka's on the team that haven't done anything wrong and are in no way responsible for the Luka trade.

At some point, fans are going to have to buck-up, and get over it. Myself included. I still like the rest of the guys on the team. I should root for the Mavs, because they've been my team since 1980. Every member of that revolving roster in 1980 came from someplace else, or were drafted. Players have come and gone, some good, some bad. Some got an awful lot of money to play basketball.

Luka will be alright, and make an awful lot of money playing basketball. Just not in Dallas, except when he comes back and kicks some Maverick tail.

This is one of the things i was or was trying to say too becuase we are Mavs fans, but the players (free agents, current players) will look diferently at the current front office when, where i will want to go to play?, comes to their minds.
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I wish Luka the best and all the old and new members of the team, but I just can't see myself investing time, emotion or money into the team anymore. Maybe things will change when they get a new GM and/or owner.
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(02-07-2025, 03:28 PM)cow Wrote: I wish Luka the best and all the old and new members of the team, but I just can't see myself investing time, emotion or money into the team anymore.  Maybe things will change when they get a new GM and/or owner.

It’s natural to feel that way. It’s part of the grieving process. 

Detaching from someone or something that’s just hurt you badly is normal.

But emotions recover and heal.

Was it 2001: A space Odyssey where Hal tells Dave that eventually, Dave will love him?
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(02-07-2025, 04:01 PM)DallasMaverick Wrote: It’s natural to feel that way. It’s part of the grieving process. 

Detaching from someone or something that’s just hurt you badly is normal.

But emotions recover and heal.

Was it 2001: A space Odyssey where Hal tells Dave that eventually, Dave will love him?

Referencing Hal as a good example of love and trust?  Huh
Not very astute ^^^^
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(02-07-2025, 04:04 PM)fifteenth Wrote: Referencing Hal as a good example of love and trust?  Huh

Just the inevitability of fandom.

It’s what we do.
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(02-07-2025, 04:06 PM)DallasMaverick Wrote: Just the inevitability of fandom.

It’s what we do.

This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.
Not very astute ^^^^
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(02-07-2025, 04:15 PM)fifteenth Wrote: This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.

Nice!
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