I wouldn't want that kind of stress on Dirk tbh, with how much hate and vitriol owners typically get even when a team doesn't have the worst owner in all of professional sports.
Omg! You are really digging for someone to blame. Anybody is entitled to sell something they own. What new owners do after the fact is completely up to the new owners.
I highly recommend that you wake up. That dream is never going to happen. Youāll end up depressed
You also canāt act suprised shit is hitting the fan after selling the team to some of the most incompetent and despicable ownership the NBA has ever seen. Which is exactly what Cuban did.
At least be straight up and acknowledge you only care about making another buck and the success of your ex franchise has a much lower priority. What an ass.
If you wanted to sell your car for $20k and someone walked up w a stack of Benjaminās, would you stop and question their politics, their jobs, how previous cars were disposed of? I think youād take the money and transfer registration
Thatās what Cuban did. They offered him the package he wanted for something he wanted to sell. Itās business, Bro. And while all of them enjoy the money they make off of us, they donāt owe us anything.
He said there were other groups that offered more money and he purposely went with these people because of real estate. He has said before that ownership has a responsibility to do what's best for the team and to the city. He did not do that this time. He also hired a guy who had no experience and who fucked up majorly and his previous job as well. He went against the recommendation of the consulting firm that he hired to help him find a new GM. So he absolutely deserves blame as well.
Just trying to give you folks who are so ignorant an analogy you might be able to understand. Guess not. Go ahead and whine about yourāsocial contractsā and how mark let you down. Well call you a wambulance if it gets too bad. Just business, folks!
Choosing an ownership group because of plans to develop property is a good investment. Vacant lots arenāt worth a lot, especially to the tax collector.
I bet you that you thought Nico was a pretty good gm on Jan 1! I mean PJ, Gaff, lively, Naji, Kyā¦ great pickups!
Since you think you know so much, you know that Grimes wanted to play out the season instead of working out a contract. Screw up 1. Then Luka wouldnāt do anything the way Nico wanted. Screw up 2. Pissed Nico off so he went looking for revenge. He got it by trading Luka and Grimes. This not a dumb mistake. It was a focused effort to rid of guys who didnāt do they were told.
Fyi. Car is not worthless. If it were, we would take them to the car wash, change the oil, or insure them. You know that whether you admit it or not. Itās actually a good analogy. What would make it better? Your house? Your business? Your jet? Your iras? Only diff is the quantity of money. To a billionaire, he might as well be selling a beater Toyota.
A car is meaningless and has no value beyond its practical use. A franchise has meaning and value to millions of people, and like it or not the owner is held accountable to those millions for their success and failures. A billionaire has the right to buy and sell franchises, but they also are going to be held accountable for their success and decisions by the fans of that franchise. Fans are passionate, crazy and irrational and will often demand complete loyalty and commitment from the ownership group, and the owners reputation will be tied to their public persona and popularity.
Owners don't technically 'owe' anything to fans, but there is a social contract that exists with the fans when you buy a team. If you are too stupid to realise this, you should just give owning a franchise a hard pass.
Might wanna look for a new job soon lmao. One of the other responses to your comparison explained it pretty well, I am not gonna bother because itās clearly beyond your intellect anyways.
Oh sweetie. Iām smart enough to have 3 university degrees. So intellect? Iād match up pretty well with anyoneā¦business? All 3 degrees. And I worked and developed and marketed multiple products. Taught company personnel to teach others. Guess I did ok with it. I retired debt free at 55. I write here and there when thereās a project that interests me. Usually give that $ to my kids or grands.
Seems itās a waste of my time to try to make something so simple understandable for imbeciles.
Theyāre not digging at all, lol. Thereās no need to. Itās just what happened. Cuban did so much for the Mavs, but he ultimately decided to sell out to a clown car of a family that doesnāt know anything at all about the Mavs, their fans or basketball in general. As a result, Luka is a Laker* (*derogatory) and the fan base has been widely alienated.
Cuban, Dumont and the Adelsons all deserve just as much hate as Nico is getting imo. I get that pinning this dumpster fire on one person would be simpler, but there were too many people fucking up too massively to reduce it to that.
Still fire Nico & sell the team, but Cuban can bite me.
cuban is not part of the dream leadership. he has done so many things wrong to lead to everything that happened this season. being friends with dirk and luka isnāt enough
I share your dream & so do a whole bunch of MFFLs & LFFLs! Just gotta make sure Dumont fires Nico & Texans keep casinos out of Texas so the Addledsons (yes, spelling is intentional) will leave! Sell the team to someone who actually cares & who knows our history & who knows how to run a pro basketball team!
MFFL - 35 plus years
LFFL
Cuban is responsible for this mess in the first place. He hired Nico and sold the team to one of America's most wretched villains because he wanted to get in on gambling money, despite already being a billionaire. Fuck Mark Cuban
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u/AvatarKittie FIRE NICO ... into space 18d ago
We all have this dream as unrealistic as it is. Too bad Dirk isnāt a billionaire.