Over the remaining six weeks of the regular season and on into whatever awaits at the end of another rusty rainbow, we’ll learn a lot about these Dallas...
The Mavericks are making decisions based on what the roster will look like in the summer of ‘25, the year before Luka Doncic can opt out.
This came up the other day when I read Jason Terry’s answer to a question posed by our Brad Townsend about what would have happened if the Mavs hadn’t blown up the 2011 title team.Out went Tyson Chandler, J.J. Barea and DeShawn Stevenson.Cuban and Donnie Nelson had their reasons for not trying to run it back with the same roster. Mostly a collective bargaining agreement in the offing.
They were sticking to their cap space plan, he said, which meant trading down, saving $400,000 and crossing their fingers. Funny thing is, even the Mavs were shocked that they won it all. Or at least that’s what Donnie implied in the summer of 2011. “Lightning in a bottle,” he told me. My point in ‘11, as well as now, was that, no matter how improbable they thought the title team, they owed it to themselves and their fans to try to run it back again. Winning it all should have changed the plan. Any team in any sport bears a responsibility to defend its title, or else you deserve to get lumped with the likes of the Marlins.
Turns out the fix was already in, which is why the league penalized the Knicks a second-round pick for tampering. But it might not have had to come to that, either.
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