02-05-2025, 09:04 PM
(02-05-2025, 07:18 PM)fifteenth Wrote: Imagine it's 2006 and Dirk just lost in his first finals appearance. We're hurting. But we're still all in on Dirk. He is our guy. We drafted him and then watched him grow into a top 5 player in the league.
Then imagine the team trades Dirk, with no warning, for an older, inferior player.
That's what Nico did.
It’s worse than that. A few of us were starting to question Luka’s professionalism (rightfully so) but back then, TONS of folks, even many Mavs fans, questioned whether or not Dirk had enough greatness in him to get it done. Trading him after 2007 would’ve been a shocker, but not to this extent.