TDL Archived: The 2nd Rnd Pick Yankee Swap

[Jason Terry]

Please.

Julius Randle wanted to be a Maverick.
Lauri Markkanen wanted to be a Maverick.
Jalen Brunson wanted to be a Maverick, and save me the Cuban BS propaganda of this being an inevitable outcome.

Facts are that if Mark Cuban wasn´t an utter moron, four of the 14 best players in the NBA right now, based on total WS this season, would be Mavericks AND ALL FOUR would be on value contracts.

This has nothing to do with nobody wants to sign here. Mark Cuban thought the combination of Dwight Powell, Maxi Kleber and THJ was better than Lauri Markkanen and Julius Randle. He didn´t recognize the talent of Brunson. That´s the reason, we are where we are. Not that nobody wants to sign here.

All the guys he actually wanted to sign, sucked within 12-18 months of his failed attempts: Hassan Whiteside, Kyle Lowry, Deron Williams, Dwight Howard.

And the guys he succesfully did sign like DeAndre Jordan, Chandler Parsons and Wes Matthews didn´t even need that long.

Facts are the Mavs/Cuban can´t recognize talent and evaluate for sh*t. I don´t see a single franchise that would be worse than us right now, if they had drafted Luka.

Sorry for ranting, but I´m sick and tired of this excuse.

I think it’s all the same problem. Jerry Cuban is the 2nd worst owner in the NBA. It will be a yearly battle to keep him from ruining the franchise just like it’s always been. Still, real players do not want to come here and yes Cuban is the biggest factor. Plenty of evidence over the years that this has happened 

The only one on that list i buy though is Randle. Yes, we could have had him. But he wasn’t an all star top player at the time. Markkanen wasn’t an all star either and we didn’t have a FRP to trade at the time of his SnT, so i don’t count that. Brunson i do not believe wanted to be here 

A Kyrie-level player is not going to sign here in FA or demand a trade here in the next 2 years. And an open market player that will play anywhere we will not have the highest bid. It’s hard to see a path if “co-star” is the path we choose over “elite role players”