Luka Dealt to Lakers: Nico Harrison is a Basketball Terrorist

[F Gump]

KL, to be clear, their public image the A's are working hard to destroy does matter at the local level, where the politicians handle zoning and eminent domain and will control whether they (as a singular private entity) can do a huge land grab to create and own a lucrative real estate area on the coming-some-day Dallas Town Lake at the edge of downtown Dallas.

But this disaster in managing the Mavs won't move the needle either way on the gambling question. That's a much bigger, deeper issue, played on a bigger stage (entire state of Texas) with a different backdrop (it's a statewide no-no and one of those sacred cows to keep it that way) and different politicians (governor and state legislature, which has been staunchly against change) and even needs a statewide vote to legalize and it has way more people pushing and pulling on both sides than the Adelsons.