12-23-2025, 11:26 AM
(12-23-2025, 10:34 AM)Mavs2021 Wrote: The fact that the NBA uses the Mavs/Lively situation as a tanking reference is another example of what a moron Cuban is. The Mavs properly tanked like once in 25 years and he had to brag about it like he invented the wheel. There are 3-5 teams every year that do it more blatantly to reach a certain protection benchmark, but you obviously can not use these examples, since these teams are not dumb enough to admit it in public.
Ha. Yeah it wasn't even bad and most nba fandom don't know this was a season wide tank. That team was awful. They got blown out back to back against Charlotte. They were walking dead to finish the season, but the team kept trying to win. Only with two games left and needing OKC to lose their last game did they decide to tank. Teams were tanking for months and they don't get it as bad as Dallas goes. I don't like tanking at all, but Dallas didn't do anything bad imo. Sort of surprised Cuban put a top 10 pick protection on that pick though. Surprise there was not any pick protection on it going off past experience.