FA: Kemba Walker to DAL | his knee is "not good"

[DanSchwartzgan]

Maybe. 

At a minimum we know "the spokesman has spoken." Cuban loves being the face of the organization. And I don't ever see that changing. 

Two possibilities from my seat:

1) When Cuban says "we" he is simply speaking on behalf of the people he has empowered to make moves. He is simply being the spokesman and face of the Mavs and Nico/Kidd/Fin are behind this move.

2) Cuban is frustrated with the direction of things and the choices made this summer and is now starting to wield his power again. I do think this is very possible as I think Kemba was always a guy CUBAN wanted. 

My fear is that #2 is happening. Cato said Cuban empowered Nico/Kidd this summer and now Cuban is being given evidence that they are incompetent and maybe he can do the job better than they can. UGH. I sure hope it isn't #2.

UGH. Actually #1 isn't any better when I think about it because Nico/Kidd/Fin have not proved to be slightly competent so far.

It is #1.  It has always been #1 and nothing that occurred yesterday was any different than usual or indicated any change in SOP.

If you know anyone in the media in Dallas, you know Cuban is always the spokesman...especially on personnel things.  The exceptions are the league mandated things like post game or media day.  All the guys who are quoting 'team sources' just sent Cuban a text and he answered them.  It was true under Donnie and it is true now.

That's part of why you can't always trust everything 'team sources' say.  We know good and well that Cuban will tell a reporter to step away from the crack pipe when he knows the thing the reporter asked about is about to go down.  Everyone knows "we had him in the top 10 on our board" is a little white lie told to sell a product.

In this case there is no way they prioritized Facu over Kemba.  This change wouldn't have happened this quickly.  Pro scouting departments are not that inept.  But, what was Cuban supposed to say?  "Yeah, those assholes in Detroit wouldn't give him to us for free, so we signed a player we knew was inferior".  "Sorry Facu, you probably shouldn't have trusted us and should have taken the better money in Europe".