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[KillerLeft]

It’s only semantics if JB himself thinks it is. That’s the question we’ve been trying to get to the answer to for a year now. I don’t think THJ, for instance, thinks it’s semantics.

Absolutely right. There's a human element to all of this we just can't know or predict. 

And, to me, "coming off the bench, but playing huge minutes in a variety of roles"... "starting next to Luka as mostly a secondary guy"..."starting as a PG and changing what Luka's role looks like" are VERY different scenarios. It's possible that only one of those would seem attractive to JB moving forward (though we can obviously only speculate for now). 

The bottom line: I think it's a mistake to assume that this is all totally subject to the wants of Mavs management.