08-02-2021, 12:33 PM
(08-02-2021, 12:24 PM)dirkfansince1998 Wrote: Same concern but I arrived at a different conclusion. Mavs, Spurs and Nuggets are probably the hotspots for international players in the league. Embrace it and focus on them in free agency. Marrkanen seems to be the only player that wants to join the Mavs at all cost and even though he isn´t great he is still a talent upgrade.
I absolutely hate it when they don´t take advantage of situations like this. Same for the local guys. Randle was willing to sign for less to come home but the Mavs had no interest.
For a team that continues to fail in free agency the few advantages of the location are important. Focus on local guys and international players.
AMEN to that. All the Europeans that are now 20-23 years old. Guess what they watched in the middle of the night ten years ago? DIRK! One of them, taking down the mighty Heat with LeBron James.
Mavs can´t let it go to waste. Porzingis was star-struck sitting next to Dirk in that Africa piece. You think Porzingis wanted to come to Dallas, because our franchise trajectory was so great or because we had done such a bang-on job over the last 10 years. The only reason he was cool with coming to Dallas was Dirk.
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