OFFICIAL AROUND THE NBA MADNESS: MARCH 2025

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kjironman1 said:
Cuban might possibly have been the best owner in the business for quite some time. He was certainly the best owner the Mavs have ever had. Totally agree with his take here on this. Why anyone would try to blame him for the Luka trade is beyond me. More so than that, I can remember many many times reading on this board and others people wishing they had an owner as invested in the team as much as Cuban.
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He's to blame because he chose cashing out (money) over the team.
 
wizenheimer said:
ok now....granted I'm old and out of touch....but wtf is a "nose wipe" celebration?
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Here's what I found:

"Several NFL players have done the "nose wipe" gesture, which references a gang signal, after a big play. This is now deemed an "unsportsmanlike" act, as is a throat slash or a simulated gun act, according to the statement"
 
Blazinaway said:
Here's what I found:

"Several NFL players have done the "nose wipe" gesture, which references a gang signal, after a big play. This is now deemed an "unsportsmanlike" act, as is a throat slash or a simulated gun act, according to the statement"
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I did the same search. Found the same thing. So now you're not allowed to wipe your nose after doing something good in the NFL. Which I guess kind of makes sense... Since you're actually wiping your face mask.
 
kjironman1 said:
He addressed that though and I can totally understand that as well. Protecting your family from the social hatred is a valid reason. I lived this at one point in my life. Obviously not on that level but I made the same decision.
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Wait, are you talking before or after he sold his share to the Adelson people? Was there more than one sale? Mark Cuban is one of the more loved owners in the NBA.
What social hatred are you talking about that would make him sell his stake in the team?
 
dviss1 said:
Wait, are you talking before or after he sold his share to the Adelson people? Was there more than one sale? Mark Cuban is one of the more loved owners in the NBA.
What social hatred are you talking about that would make him sell his stake in the team?
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He addressed the threats to his wife and kids personally. I felt hearing it that it was genuine. Yes many loved him as an owner but in this world there are always haters and he just felt it was time to back away for the good of his family.
 
I don’t know what’s more unrealistic, Scoot or Bronny.
 
kjironman1 said:
He addressed the threats to his wife and kids personally. I felt hearing it that it was genuine. Yes many loved him as an owner but in this world there are always haters and he just felt it was time to back away for the good of his family.
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I guess I missed something. I never heard about any threats. Is there some sort of article or link you can direct me to?
 
The Bucks scored 44 in the first and still lost by 20 to Atlanta? They can't blame Dame for this defensive when you give up 82 first-half points to a sub 500 team at home.
 
The Bucks scored 44 in the first quarter and still lost by 20 to Atlanta? They can't blame Dame for his defense when they give up 82 first-half points to a sub-500 team at home without him.
 
Pinwheel1 said:
The Bucks scored 44 in the first quarter and still lost by 20 to Atlanta? They can't blame Dame for his defense when they give up 82 first-half points to a sub-500 team at home without him.
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Those draft picks are starting to look better and better. They really muffed up a good thing when they fired Griffin.
 
dviss1 said:
I guess I missed something. I never heard about any threats. Is there some sort of article or link you can direct me to?
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It’s on the Twitter link here on this page and also in the Dallas morning news article from about a year ago.
Main reason is he wanted to put his effort into real estate and remove his family from the constant social media bombardment.
 
handiman said:
Mercy, mercy...

And Drazen wasn't really Drazen yet for us, so it didn't seem at the time like we were losing much. Would he ever have developed like that here? Who knows.
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Rest his soul, we'd be a better team with him off the bench. And about Drazen not being Drazen yet, nah, he was he just didn't get minutes. He immediately went to the Nets and averaged 20.

We lost out on 2 great players because of Drexler. Jordan and Drazen.
 
dviss1 said:
And about Drazen not being Drazen yet, nah, he was he just didn't get minutes. He immediately went to the Nets and averaged 20.
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Not exactly true. He averaged 20 during his first full season there, but in the half season after the trade he averaged only 12.6 per game. That's a modest 5 ppg increase from his rookie season (his minutes increased similarly; points per 36 were remarkably steady throughout), so he was gradually ramping up. The first full year with NJ is when he saw the big bump in minutes, so he probably had to prove to them, as well, that he was ready for the bigger role.
 
handiman said:
Not exactly true. He averaged 20 during his first full season there, but in the half season after the trade he averaged only 12.6 per game. That's a modest 5 ppg increase from his rookie season (his minutes increased similarly; points per 36 were remarkably steady throughout), so he was gradually ramping up. The first full year with NJ is when he saw the big bump in minutes, so he probably had to prove to them, as well, that he was ready for the bigger role.
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You just invented that. He went from averaging 7 MPG to over 20. He'd already been given a bigger role. Had he gotten those minutes in Portland, he probably wouldn't have been so disgruntled.

Again, Kersey should've came off the bench and Drexler should've moved to the 3. I'm sure Drexler had a reluctance to doing that, which is why we lost out on both Jordan and Drazen.

Edit in red: did you do this disingenuously? Bringing up his rookie season? Because he was only averaging 4.4 PPG for that portion of the 90/91 season and he upped it to 12.6 PPG.
That's an 8.2 PPG increase mid-season. He was pissed because he saw his playing time dwindle. He got more MPG his rookie season.
 
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dviss1 said:
Edit in red: did you do this disingenuously? Bringing up his rookie season? Because he was only averaging 4.4 PPG for that portion of the 90/91 season and he upped it to 12.6 PPG.
That's an 8.2 PPG increase mid-season. He was pissed because he saw his playing time dwindle. He got more MPG his rookie season.
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I already know it's pointless to discuss anything with you, so this will be my last reply. I compared his first half+ season in NJ to his rookie season, because the scant 18 game period in between saw him play only 7.4 minutes per game. And his shooting percentage plummeted. It was the periods immediately before and after that that best indicate if he changed as a player as soon as he got more opportunity.
 
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