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@TheSteinLine was asked in his Substack chat if the Mavericks were blindsided by Bryan Gates leaving to Philadelphia?

His answer: “Absolutely not and I'm frankly stunned at the reaction to this one. Gates was hired to be the Mavs' fourth assistant ... BEHIND the bench. Philly called because they had an ON THE BENCH spot for Gates. You don't deny a person a promotion. So the Mavs let Gates out of his deal to take the Philly spot.”

Mavs Twitter went feral that Gates left for Philly, even though he was just a footnote of the offseason. Pretty sure the Mavs already hired their 2 replacements to be on the bench for Kidd.

My general feeling about Cuban is that he´s still very stingy with his money. We have seen if for the last decade with the roster, but also the leaking roof that must be celebrating his 18th birthday soon. The training facilities seem old and worn down, while other franchises invest into state of the art buildings. 

I laughed my a** off recently, when somebody did a HT shots video, and buried the Mavs as the cheapest bastards. Other teams give you 10k for a halfcourt shot. Mavs make you hit a lay-up, a free throw, a three point shot and a half court shot and then give you a flatscreen TV. 

And it´s probably the same with assistants and even GMs. I doubt that it is just about control and power. Cuban simply doesn´t want to pay a Masai Ujiri or Nick Nurse their open market salaries.  Sure he paid Carlisle, but you could argue that saved him millions, cause he carried the annual shitshow to a first round exit worth a few extra millions, when an average coach would have won 28-32 games.