2021-2022 ROSTER TALK: [ARCHIVED]

[KillerLeft]

I'm always a little surprised that you feel Cuban has a hard stance on this.  First half of the ownership he paid the tax and he didn't while we were essentially rebuilding.

Well, I don't think we have enough info yet to feel one way or the other, so that's not really the impression I meant to convey. But, I do wonder about it. 

He was vocal about his disdain for the 2011 CBA. He didn't think it fixed the problems owners were having financially. Around the same time, I remember an interview in which he begrudgingly admitted that he had lost over $100 million on the Mavericks since buying them. I know we as fans admired that part of his early tenure and I'm sure he's aware of that, but I remember getting the impression that he was deeply embarrassed about it, like he thought other owners were laughing at him about it, kind of. I got the impression that he felt shame for operating the team at a $100 million loss.

The fact is that since that CBA, the Mavericks have never paid the tax. That's a decade. Now, were there any teams during that period that deserved a tax-paying approach? No, and that's a valid argument. Maybe the Mavs' extremely poor team-building during that decade made the idea of becoming a tax-paying team moot. But, maybe the desire not to pay the tax might've caused some of the poor team-building choices, on the other hand. It's a little "chicken and egg" imo. Tough to tell. 

We are going to have answers to these questions very soon, imo. I'd say by this time next season we'll know considerably more.