12-13-2025, 12:28 PM
(12-12-2025, 05:43 PM)F Gump Wrote: If I can pick anyone I want, to be the GM, I would hire Presti. So why start anywhere else? I would pursue that outcome and figure out how to make it happen. Dumont has to open the checkbook to an absurd level? If there's a price that will make it happen, write the check.
Presti has years of experience - no learning curve here. He has gained all the skills - great at trades, great in the draft, great in contracts and managing the cap. Rather than hiring someone in hopes they can become really good in those areas, why not just hire the original, and be done with it? Other teams have been so bold in the past. Why not the Mavs?
LOL
Why not the Mavs? Because OKC is looking like a dynasty and Presti has a boatload of picks to wheel and deal and continue to do his job for the next many years, a job he presumably loves. It's not like his team is on the downswing and the Mavs provide an exciting new opportunity.
It's hard to even put into words how much of a money grubbing whore you'd have to be to leave OKC for Dallas.
It doesn't hurt to check. I imagine that conversation lasts about 15 seconds.