07-02-2021, 12:49 AM
(07-01-2021, 11:34 PM)F Gump Wrote: So the story being told is that Bob wasn't a Mav employee, Donnie was The Mavs guy and had been heavily involved in Luka for years, but Bob from the outside was the one responsible for Luka becoming a Mav?
I'm really skeptical, as that sounds like the most extreme of BS-y claims for credit.
However, if someone does buy that story, they certainly can't believe that Cuban isn't Jerry Jones and then some. Not listening to your GM and his years of work, and then listening to a non-NBAer to persuade you. What a messed up way to evaluate players and make personnel decisions. Yikes.
OTOH if it's NOT true, then who's the one inventing stories to pump up Bob and try to take credit away from Donnie? Simmons? Or someone feeding nonsense to Simmons?
Either way, no way to believe Cuban is just an owner who's been doing normal ownerly things, and letting the Mav GMs' and others do their jobs and make the decisions that come with them.
And it leaves reason to wonder if, rather than Cuban having a grand plan to make front office changes, maybe nothing had ever been contemplated, and then Donnie responded to things being done and said in a way that forced Cuban into letting Donnie go, rather than reining in his freewheeling process.
I am scared poopless at the idea of Cuban feeding the press the idea that Bob was responsible for the Luka pick. If that's true, there's only one reason to do it: they're keeping Bob.
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