<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (GMJigga @ Apr 30 2008, 07:18 PM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (NetIncome @ Apr 30 2008, 04:36 PM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>It was only last August that Donnie Nelson called Harris, Diop, Ager and Howard the "future cornerstone of the franchise".
--Now, they have lost three of the four players to the Nets, along with two draft picks that would have added to the "future cornerstone" and seen the fourth player admit to illegal drug use, look awful in the playoffs and be criticized for having a party after the most critical loss in the series.
--They lost to a division rival that is younger, more athletic and likely to get better while they get older. Their roster includes ELEVEN players who will be age 30 or older by July 1: Jason Kidd, Erick Dampier, Jason Terry, Dirk Nowitzki, Malik Allen, Devean George, Tyrone Lue, Eddie Jones, Jerry Stackhouse, Jamal Magloire and Juwan Howard. The only players under 30 are Josh Howard, Brandon Bass, Juan Jose Barea and Antoine Wright.
--They now have the biggest payroll in the NBA, bigger than the Knicks. Their free agents are all minimum salary type guys. They owe $100 million to Kidd, Dampier, Stackhouse, Terry and Jones...
--They took on $11 million in extra salary and luxury taxes as a result of the Kidd trade, for which they got nothing.
--They now have to make a decision on extending Kidd, who looked every day of 35 years old. Reports just before the trade had the Mavs giving Kidd a gentlemens agreement to extend him for two years and $20 million. Kidd has said recently he wants to play til he is 38 and retire as a Mav. Do the math...that means he wants a two year extension.
--They wound up firing the NBA coach with the highest winning percentage of active coaches.
WOW.</div>
wow epic post, that's going in my sig. I'd be baffled if anyone could defend the Kidd trade for the Mavs at this point, and especially to how the season has unfolded and how the following years will progress.
In THRON we trust.
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CHEERS!