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Also you can call me the angry one, but compare the activity and mood of the board last night and then the genereal activity and mood over last 4-5 years. That´s what hope and sunshine looks like. We can all pretend everything was fine the last five years, but it really was not, except for the brief WCF glimpse that in true Mavs fashion Cuban had to ruin immediately with the Brunson exit. 

Luka is a generational talent you get every 20 years and we could not even manage to put a remotely competitive team around him for five years. Huge credit to Harrison (to have the humility to sign) Lindsey to finally get on a level front office playing field with the rest of the NBA. Just look at the progression from Powell to a normal sized rookie Lively to a normal sized NBA starter Gafford and you start to understand how special Luka is.

Harrison has taken some bumps and bruises like don´t sign old players with mental health issues looking for a last contract to multiple years or don´t sign Batman, when he has the physical tools of Batgirl. But just the ripple effect that tanking for Lively had. That is something Cuban would have never done by himself. Cause you got to value the culture of the additional two wins.

Also I like the new owner already. Very little interference so far, one interview and immediately praising Nico for his work. Have a sneaky suspicion that Cuban might think he´s still running things, but at the end of the day the new owners have to sign off on every deal. If Nico/Lindsey don´t like it, they´ll listen to them and not Cuban. 

It´s fair to point out the overly expensive detour we took to get PJ Washington, but the sneaky 10 games tank literally allowed us to turn....

Bertans into Holmes and an additional 1st round pick. Then turn Holmes and an additional 1st round pick swap into Gafford. So basically we turned Bertans into Lively + Gafford + Omax at the cost of a potential swap. That´s why tanking works, if you know what you are doing.

Without the tanking for Lively, we have to keep Bertans. We probably still sign Grant Williams. We most likely trade an unprotected 1st and something for Capela and our front court is...

Williams/Bertans
Capela/Powell

at 54M a year. 

Now we pay

Washington/Kleber
Lively/Gafford

44M a year for the next three years.

Halleluka!