06-16-2021, 05:03 PM
RE: This Situation
I think there is no chance that Sunday was the moment Cuban knew he would be needing a new GM. None. I wouldn't be shocked if Cuban has known for months he would be getting a new GM. I wouldn't be shocked if Forde has been looking for a new GM for Cuban behind the scenes for months.
Like one poster rightly observed: Remember the trade fiasco with MIA? Cuban HAS to have known there were issues for months and months.
If Ujiri is the guy, then it is possible he AND Cuban have known that for months. Ujiri might have been biding his time waiting for the Mavs season to be over.
Ujiri back in May:
I think there is no chance that Sunday was the moment Cuban knew he would be needing a new GM. None. I wouldn't be shocked if Cuban has known for months he would be getting a new GM. I wouldn't be shocked if Forde has been looking for a new GM for Cuban behind the scenes for months.
Like one poster rightly observed: Remember the trade fiasco with MIA? Cuban HAS to have known there were issues for months and months.
If Ujiri is the guy, then it is possible he AND Cuban have known that for months. Ujiri might have been biding his time waiting for the Mavs season to be over.
Ujiri back in May:
Quote:"Everybody says, 'Blank check, blank check,' but I'm not as much focused on a blank check," Ujiri said during a news conference when asked what he will think about in making his decision. "A lot of the things that we've done here, we have to move forward as a franchise to compete with the best in the NBA. This is all about winning a championship again.
"Let me tell you something, guys: Everybody has forgotten what happened two years ago. OK, yes, we won. But nobody cares anymore, OK? We want to win another one. That's what you want to do. Yeah, you want to prepare yourself to win another one. Not play in the play-in game, not play in the playoffs, you want to win a championship. Everybody's like, 'Why don't you get into the play-in?' Play-in for what? We want to win a championship here, and we have to put ourselves in position.
"I want to know, 'So what's the next lift? What's the next five years? What's the next 10 years? What are we doing to put ourselves in the conversation with all the great teams and all the winners?' That's what we want to do, and that's the conversation that I'm going to have with [ownership]. And, yes, I'm going to have asks, and I'm going to have a lot of things that I think we need to put forward here to address these things, and I think ownership is open to hear this."