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https://x.com/NotJackKemp/status/1989681779880423502

The above is the correct take.

At the same time,  if you're on the outside, are sensitive to issues of race and are historically used to seeing minorities used as scapegoats, the easy to accept conclusion would be that the owner forced Nico's hand with the max contract coming up, because no one can outside can fathom that we had the once in a lifetime..heck maybe the first and only time ever...intersection of a clueless GM on a power trip and a dumb, first time owner who had zero clue about basketball that he was using Shaq as an example of work ethic and professionalism coming together to create the perfect disaster storm that they did.

I've not hidden the fact that Luka was not my fav player to watch but the timing and returns of the trade were so overwhelmingly ridiculous that I nor anyone else will ever be able to explain it.  Any explanations that Nico or Dumont will give will never make any sense either.

I've gotta go with this.  I'm tired of the race game.  We'd be much better off if we could just look at each other and see another person.  For the most part I do, but this view has to come from ALL sides.  What needs to be done?..and how many hundreds of years will it take?

I'm not saying Dumont wasn't a dumb@@s...and that Nico didn't make one of the--if not THE--worst trades of all times.  I'm saying we gotta quit throwing that race card out there all the time.  It's NOT a trump card.  It's a joker...