2021-2022 MAVS NEWS: 4th in West | WCF loss [ARCHIVED]

[ItsGoTime]

I mean, at the root of all this is a fact, right? Not an opinion? You can fairly say that we don't know enough now (and might never know enough) to definitively reach that fact, but there's a fact there to discover. 

This could be incorrect, because this place has been a whirlwind for the past 2-3 days and I might've missed something, but it seems to me like one, vague comment from KOC (brought here by a poster who goes out of his way to make fun of him and discredit him about everything else, no less) is the only source of this idea that Toronto somehow wanted to PAY a 1st rounder to Dallas for the privilege of eating the Porzingis contract. Have we heard/ready this from anybody else? I'm genuinely asking. 

Personally, I have been shocked since seeing that pop up, because it doesn't make sense. Maybe it's true, but it's clear to me that the pieces missing from that rumor would have a real impact on what we'd ultimately think about it. KP is not worth a 1st, period. We know TOR thought Dragic was worth something, as evidenced by the non-stop negotiating through the media we've seen all season, since FA last summer. What was it that they wanted from Dallas that had them negotiating to add a first? Brunson? DFS? Both? We just don't know. 

Or, did that one KOC line get it backwards? That's the first thing I thought of, actually. 

Since then, it seems like more and more people at least as reliable as KOC and probably more are making it a point to contradict the specific notion that there was a deal for Dallas to get a 1st out of TOR for Porzingis that they turned down.

Are we all predisposed to connect dots in a way that makes more sense to us? ABSOLUTELY! But, does one of those scenarios make more sense objectively than the other? Would YOU pay a 1st for Porzingis (while simultaneously offering major financial relief to his old team)? I wouldn't.

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Ok, so this might move the needle for me. What did he say, and where did he say it? Was the entire deal laid out?

The first time I read anything about this deal being a recent thing is from the article Dan summarized today (well, that's when I read his summary at least). Otherwise, I've been remembering reports all the way back to last TDL about Tor and Was monitoring the KP situation in Dal. That, put together with the original report tells me this negotiation has possibly been going on for the entirety of Nico's tenure (and probably before that), with the deal looking differently as the discussions go on.

I don't know if there was any point in time that a deal could have been struck from Nico's hire to now, but it seems to me, if they were discussing it, there would have been a point where one side said yes and the other side said let's wait. Seeing what they got for him now, I wonder if Nico/Cuban was ever the hold up on that. 

Would have to have WAY more info to know that, and there's no way I would ever think that much info would come out. So here we are, I can only react to the info given at the time it's given (but should go back to my wait and see approach, since all this stuff has done is make assumers out of all involved).