2021-2022 ROSTER TALK: [ARCHIVED]

[F Gump]

I just haven't seen anything definitive that Cuban was the GM in the truest sense. Yes, he checked off on everything, but ...

What you are failing to see (or denying) is that what you describe by MC is what GMs (not owners) do. You want to label it as behavior for an Owner, but it's not. Far from it.

The Typical Owner will have the GM weigh in on bigger money issues, budget, tax limits, and reserve veto power.

But the GM figures out how to build the roster. GMs do the negotiating of trades and contracts. They handle the draft and decide who does what. GMs hire (and fire) others needed to provide help in those chores. The guys with info, with analysis, with opinions, with ideas, they work for the GM, they bring their input to the GM, and he weighs it and makes the call. They might delegate some of those chores, but they might not.

That's what MC has done. That's who he's been. Don't doubt it - no one close to the team for any amount of time will tell you otherwise. It's been fairly obvious.

By both words and deeds, it looks like he's (finally) hired someone else to be The GM now. Hopefully he won't reverse course in a flash of ego.