GIANNIS THREAD: Giannis has SIGNED the Supermax

[ItsGoTime]

I have been a professional bus driver, when it comes to running over the MBT, but if there is one thing that you can´t accuse them of it´s not being player friendly. I´d argue it´s the opposite.

1. They have served as a retirement home for washed-up NBA players for the last decade.

I´d guess 5% of the retired NBA players do it with us. Can probably add JJB and Courtney Lee to the list. Then we have Amare, Deron, Charlie V, Devin Harris and so on.

2. Matthews and DAJ. Please, those two stole money from Cuban.

The players around the league are mad that we traded them? More likely they are mad, we don´t hand out idiotic contracts to childish has-beens and broken down fakers anymore. DAJ, of all people, feeling mis-treated after the whole first go around. Wow.

3. Barnes. He wanted to stay in Dallas, but Dallas didn´t want him to stay. That´s just daily NBA business.

Would it have been more enjoyable for him to miss the rest of the season with the ankle flu as the Mavs tried to tank for a top pick? The fact that he opted to re-sign in Sacramento also says that we traded him to a preferred destination. So maybe the timing could have been handled better (mid-game), but here is the thing. The Mavs rarely leak stuff, so it either came from the agent to make the Mavs look bad or the Kings, because they wanted to announce their top acquisition asap. On paper they easily got the best player in the deal.

4. DFS. Oh sure he´d like to have a better contract now, but has a player ever asked to give money back, if he didn´t live up to his deal? The Mavs gave him his NBA break and featured him heavily as a starter, so that he has grown his status to the next Covington level. When his current contract is up, he´ll turn that into a $40-50M payday. Most likely and hopefully with the Mavs.

So yeah the examples given are bad imho.

The thought that they are a ruthless FO doesn’t care about the excuses as to why.


As far as DFS. There is a reason the moment he signed that contract it was celebrated as a team friendly deal. He was and is worth every bit as much as DP and Kleber who were given their contracts in the exact same offseason (last one). It’s not fully about what DFS thinks about it either. It’s about players from the outside looking in, if they’re predisposed to think the FO is ruthless unless your a part of their “in” guys, these will show as examples to strengthen that thought.