The Dallas Mavericks Worst Nightmare Came True…

The Dallas Mavericks Worst Nightmare Came True…

Cubben may be selling the Dallas Mavericks to casino Mogul Sheldon adon’s Widow Miriam I think you know you look at our defense you know we I think again we have to we talked about before the game got to rebound the ball how was your play inbound the ball to Luca at

The logo hey he’s going to get doubled it’s a smart defensive play double team him trap him at the logo force a wild pass out or something the Dallas Mavericks looked like they finally arrived after reaching the 2022 Western Conference Finals while they lost to the event ual Champion Golden State Warriors

Their playoff run was their closest to a championship since they won the 2011 NBA Finals but after losing one of their best players in free agency and trying to fill the void with a big trade Dallas took a huge step back last season and missed the playoffs Mavericks improved

Their roster and record this season but an unsettling trend has persisted Luka donic is playing out of his mind and continues to make his case as the best player in the league despite this the Dallas Mavericks still seem far from a championship franchise struggling against the League’s best despite

Playing through a superstar plus a bizarre recent ownership sale raises questions about how the team’s basketball decisions will be made for the foreseeable future before we get to the content make sure you drop like subscribe and turn on your notifications to help the channel grow and check us

Out on Snapchat because we’ve been making a huge push to show you what goes down behind the scenes on this channel now that we got all that out of the way the intro Mik check 1212 what’s going on everybody the Dallas Maverick struggles from last season can be blamed largely on their mishandling of Jaylen brunson’s contract ahead of 2022 free agency you see in 2018 Dallas made a league alter ing move when they acquired Luca donic in their famous draft night deal with Atlanta

Atlanta the Atlanta Hawks Trey young however the Dallas Mavericks also drafted Jaylen Brunson a two-time national champion at Villanova in the second round with the 33rd pick in the draft what a legendary hul on draft night I mean stealing Luca donic who was the Undisputed best player in the 2018

NBA draft and then wrapping around to select Jaylen Brunson with your second round pick is Absolut Mastery by The Scouting department but this made things a little bit more difficult contractually although Jaylen Brunson was selected with a less valuable pick this gave Jaylen Brunson a little bit more flexibility when it came to

Structuring his contract you see a first round pick in the NBA draft largely fits into a predetermined rookie scale deal there’s no questions over how long you’re going to sign with the team it’s always 2 years plus a 2-year team option but brunson’s agent at the time time

Leon Rose of CAA Sports who by the way is currently the president of basketball operations for the New York Nicks negotiated a 4-year 6.1 million contract that looked similar to a first round contract with one key difference the final two seasons on a typical first round rookie contract are team options

Which are often followed by restricted free agency which allows the original team to match any offer Jaylen brunson’s rookie contract guaranteed the first three seasons but his contract ended with with a non- guaranteed season which would allow him to become an unrestricted free agent on a completely unrelated note the Knicks hired Leon

Rose to be their team president less than two years later fast forward to the start of the 2021 to 2022 season and the Dallas Mavericks could have preempted brunson’s free agency and signed him to a 4-year $ 55.6 million extension ESPN’s Tim McMahon reported that the Mavericks

Didn’t even offer wait where you going I’m about to get to the part where Jaylen Brunson leaves were you dang it so where were we yeah ESPN’s Tim McMahon reported that the Mavericks didn’t offer a contract extension as a matter of fact let’s forget the contract extension the Dallas Mavericks never

Reached out to Jaylen brunson’s representation before the season to begin negotiations even as Jaylen Brunson transitioned from sixthman to starter during the season Dallas still didn’t offer him a contract extension and it wasn’t until after the trade deadline a trade deadline that featured the Dallas Mavericks bailing on the

Christs porzingis experiment that the Mavericks offered him that deal once he could no longer be included in a potential trade forward Dori and Finny Smith signed a nearly identical contract after the trade deadline but Jaylen Brunson did not Jaylen would later talk about this part of the season when he

Told Dallas that he wanted to sign the extension like you said I started having a much of season and um I went to them before they officially offered it to me and then uh but then it was kind of too late it was like the the business came

Knocking on the door and so it was time to kind of just at least look you know I I had to do my due diligence and look and U see what what was out there and in the playoffs Brunson quickly showed that Dallas had made a horrific mistake in

The first round against Utah Brunson carry the Mavericks early as Luca missed the first three games with the calf injury a career-high 41 points in game two 31 points in game three helped Dallas jump out to a 2 to1 Series lead before winning the series in six games

You would not be able to make it to the Western Conference Finals if it wasn’t for Jaylen brunson’s heroics and considering the fact that a 4-year $55 million contract would have aged beautifully in the new CBA and allowed the Dallas Mavericks to get additional help to pair with Jaylen Brunson and

Luca donic and this was the first step to what would result in the Dallas Mavericks who current very unsettling situation once the Maverick season ended after the Western Conference Finals it seemed like only a matter of time until Brunson left Dallas to go to the Knicks jaylen’s father Rick had just been hired

As an assistant coach for the Knicks Rick was the first player client of Leon Rose who negotiated jaylen’s rookie deal and was now running New York’s front office Leon’s son Sam Rose is one of jaylen’s Agents despite declaring that Brunson was the offseason’s top priority

With their ability to pay him more on a longer deal Dallas lost their second best player and New York signed him to a 4-year $14 million contract nearly what Dallas could have signed him for had they offered him an extension before the trade deadline and that sent the Dallas

Mavericks flailing through the 2022 free agency and the Mavericks would Panic they resigned Maxi kba but they didn’t add enough talent to replace brunson’s production they drafted Jaden Hardy in the second round they traded for Christian Wood they signed javil McGee but that did little to fill the void

That Jaylen Brunson Left Behind the New York Knicks would later be stripped of a second round pick for tampering after the league found out that that the New York Knicks had negotiated with Brunson before such conversations were allowed yeah way to go NBA that’ll show them this didn’t help the Dallas Mavericks or

Luca who needed all the help that they could get to keep the team afloat considering that this was their best finish to date underneath the Luca donic era another terrific donic season went largely unsupported as the Mavericks remained a team hovering just about 500 for most of the season’s first half

Injuries to Dorian finny Smith and Maxi kba didn’t help as the team slumped anytime Luka was out of the lineup but help would soon be on the way for the second trade deadline in a row Mavericks felt like they needed to make a big move

Now after asking the nets for a trade in the aftermath of their failed big three experiment which by the way Kevin Durant is currently conducting the same exact experiment in Phoenix we made a video on it recently highly recommend you check it out maybe even before you continue

This video but make sure you come back to this video so I could get two views instead of one but after asking the nets for a trade in the aftermath of their failed big three experiment Kyrie Irving was on his way to Dallas the Mavericks agreed to trade Spencer D witty Dorian

Finy Smith a 2029 first round pick and second round picks in 2027 and 2029 to Brooklyn in exchange for Kyrie Irving and markei Morris the trade was a big risk for the Mavericks who were dealing for an elite scoring guard less than a year after losing Jaylen Brunson Kyrie

Irving’s Talent is unquestioned but his availability for lack thereof was one of the reasons that Brooklyn Championship hopes never came to fruition he missed time with injuries but also because of multiple suspensions one was related to his response to posting a controversial movie another was his refusal to get the

Covid-19 vaccine plus he was on an expiring contract so losing him would be detrimental but the upside of a Luca Kyrie pairing was just too good to pass up and the Dallas Mavericks were incredibly desperate at this point Irving started strong in Dallas winning his first two games with the Mavericks

Without Luca putting the Mavericks five games above 500 but once donic returned things wouldn’t go so well the Dallas Mavericks would nose dive people were starting to question whether or not the Kyrie Irving trade resulted in the Mavericks missing the playoffs after starting 31 and 26 Dallas went 7 and 18

The rest of the way going just 5- 11 with Kyrie Irving and Luca donic playing together the result was so disastrous that the Mavericks opted to tank their final games of the season so they could improve their draft odds so what was the problem with this pairing well Mavericks

Had one of the League’s worst defenses in that stretch allowing almost 120 points per game and if you go to the Dallas Mavericks in the 2021 to 2022 season they had the sixth best defensive rating in the NBA paired with the 15th best offensive rating in the NBA in the

2022 to 2023 season it seemed like they were the opposite the sixth best offensive rating in the NBA but the 24th best defensive rating in the NBA on top of that the jayen Brunson fiasco was also clearly still bothering the team in an unscheduled media availability before

Their third to last game Mark cubin went in on jayen Brunson and his father Rick he disputed jayen brunson’s claim that he was willing to sign the 4-year $56 million extension and claimed that the Mavericks weren’t given an opportunity to negotiate before he signed with the Knicks he blamed Rick for getting

Involved in his son’s free agency and after pointing out that Dallas could have given him a bigger contract implied that Jaylen went to New York for reasons other than money at the end of the day it was the right decision for Jaylen Brunson the Dallas Mavericks were never

Going to make him the focal point of the offense and the New York Knicks were clearly willing to do that I think Mark cubin is just upset at himself for making the wrong decision but with the Mavericks play in chances fading ahead of their second to last game Mavericks

Announced that they were resting much of their rotation while Luca played the first 12 and 1/2 minutes for sitting for the rest of the night Dallas lost that night to the Bulls extinguishing their postseason chances head coach Jason kid said that Cuban and and general manager Nico Harrison made that decision that

Was likely because Dallas wanted to increase their draft odds because they still owed a top 10 protected pick to the Knicks as part of their 2019 trade to acquire porzingis the last thing the Mavericks wanted to do at this point was continue helping the New York Knicks

About a week later the NBA fined the Maverick $750,000 for undermining the Integrity of the sport by resting key players during the last two games just like the Hawks Conference Finals run in 2021 the m R’s postseason in 2022 was beginning to look like a fluke their previous

Season had ended three wins away from the NBA finals and the 2022 to 23 season ended with an intentional failure so the 2023 off season is going to be a crucial one for the Dallas Mavericks with a lot of questions in mind how do you improve this team’s defense can you get Kyrie

Irving to come back and how much patience does Luca donic have left Dallas began another active off season in the first round of the 2020 3 draft after keeping their pick that ended up at 10 the Mavericks traded back with Oklahoma City to draft Derek Lively while shedding Davies Bon’s horrible

Contract in the process later that night they acquired the rights to Olivier maxon’s prosper and ran Holmes from the kings in exchange for cash considerations they checked their biggest box of free agency when they resigned Kyrie Irving to a three-year 126 million doll contract extension but they didn’t stop there Dallas resigned

Dwight Powell Marie Morris and just before the season Josh Green they signed Seth Curry to a 2-year deal for his third stint with the franchise probably the coolest story of this entire video they also took a flyer on the former fifth overall pick in the 2014 NBA Draft

Dante exom who hadn’t played in the NBA since 2021 with the Cleveland Cavaliers they didn’t finish there they really placed an emphasis on defense on top of Olivia Max prosper and Derek Lively they really needed a glue guy so they pulled off a the three- team sign in trade with

The Boston Celtics and San Antonio Spurs to acquire Grant Williams later in the off season they took a flyer on former slam dung contest champion and signed Derek Jones Jr to a one-year deal the Mavericks did exactly what they needed to do to help Luca donic bring back his

Best teammate unlike last time it seems like they were learning their lesson though the Mavericks also added shooting and size and unlike the previous summer there was a reason to believe that the Mavericks crushed the off season but would it work well in the first 10 games of the Season

Things were going great the Mavericks started out 8-2 donic was special again right from the jump scoring 49 points in their second game against Brooklyn then 44 points against the Los Angeles Clippers and while Luca and Kyrie continued to play well the Mavericks started to struggle during the end of

November and early December it didn’t help the team to learn that they’d miss Josh Green for weeks with a right elbow sprain they did give themselves a spark in the 20th game of the season when they blew Utah out of the the building with a 50-point win Luca completed a triple

Double in the first half alone it would be the first 25o first half triple double in NBA history and that would spark a four-game winning streak as the Mavericks improved to 16-9 by mid December during that streak Kyrie Irving went down in a win over Portland after

Dwight Powell fell on his right foot the team announced the next day that Irving sustained a right heel contusion with no timetable for a return so as Dallas hit a tough stretch in their schedule Kyrie Irving was out of the lineup and the Dallas Mavericks tumbled they gave up

130 points in Denver and lost by 26 points despite a near triple double from Luca donic and his franchise record 11 30-point game he finished a rebound short of a triple double in their next game as their rally came up short in a home loss to the Clippers they suffer

Their first three-game losing streak when Lucas Satur in a blowout loss in Houston donic got Dallas back on track with a 39-point triple double in a win over the lowly San Antonio onio Spurs for following that up with an alltime Christmas performance donic had an insane statline with an efficient 50

Points 15 assists six rebounds four Steals and three blocks as Dallas used a strong fourth quarter to win in Phoenix which by the way things are not good in Phoenix highly recommend you check out this video now Lucas’s 50 piece put him over 10,000 points for his career this

Game had all the makings of a signature win for the Mavericks as they improved to 18 and 12 Derek Lively had 20 points and 10 rebounds as he continued his flying start to his career firmly establishing himself as the starting center Derek Jones Jr a former Phoenix

Son dropped 23 points on his old team as he added another chapter to his career year in which he is averaging double digits in scoring for the first time Tim Hardaway Jr scored 18 points continuing his highest scoring season in Dallas and Dante exom who was out of the league for

Two seasons impressed as a secondary ball handler and Defender he’s upped his game significantly since entering the starting lineup in mid December and Jason kid even announced that he’d remain a starter even once Kyrie Irving came back but just as the Dallas Mavericks were patting themselves on the

Back for their offseason success they would hit their lowest point of the season after Christmas in a home game against the short-handed Cavaliers the Mavericks built up a 20-point first half lead and looked like they were heading for a blowout win but the Cavaliers began to double Luca donic a lot more

And limited Dallas to 41 points in the second half and a Cleveland team missing three starters rally to win 113 to 110 just look at Luca Don’s reaction once he realized Dallas couldn’t get a clean shot off before the buzzer in their next game against the Western Conference leading Minnesota Timberwolves the

Mavericks hung with them without Luca But ultimately lost by eight it looked like the Mavericks were back on track again when Luca returned to lead them past Golden State but they proceeded to fall flat on their faces to begin the New Year even with Kyrie back back in

The lineup after 12 games the Mavericks were wiped out in Utah by 37 points as Dallas suffered their biggest loss of the Season Dallas rebounded with a dominant win over Portland but it came out a cost both Lively and Grant Williams had to leave the game with ankle injuries depending how much time

They miss those injuries could be devastating especially since Dallas is limited in how they win games Dallas can only win one way and that’s by outscoring their opponent if their offensive production dips just a little Mavericks have trouble winning they’ve only won one game all season in which

They scored less than 110 points and they’re 3 and 13 when they score less than 120 points in the game once again the Dallas Maverick’s biggest problem has returned they are a top 10 scoring offense with a offensive rating of 10 but they’re also a bottom 10 scoring

Defense Who currently has a net rating of 21 and they rebound at a bottom five rate losing two of their best defensive players certainly won’t help change that Trend the Mavericks also struggle to win against teams with winning records but dominate against losing teams and eerily similar trade to their local football

Counterparts what I’m a Dallas Cowboy fan I’m allowed to say that but on top of that the Dallas Mavericks have undergone a massive change this season as an organization it’s something that has a minimal impact on the current season but will have massive long-term implications on future roster decisions

News broke just after Thanksgiving that Miriam adelen the Widow of Casino magnate Sheldon adelon sold $2 billion in Las Vegas sandstock to buy a pro sports team shortly after it was reported that Mark cubin will be selling a majority stake of the franchise to the adelon family while he keeps his shares

In the team and full control of basketball operations about a month later the NBA approved the sale of making adon’s son-in-law Patrick Dumont the team’s new governor while Cuban became the alternate Governor part of Cuban ‘s decision to partner with Las Vegas Sands was the idea of building a

New arena in Downtown Dallas that included a hotel and casino you see gambling isn’t legal in Texas and the Adon have donated millions of dollars to various legislatures in an effort to legalize it Cuban gave a pregame interview shortly after the news of the sale broke where he answered questions

About the sale and revealed new information like the fact that he now owned 27% of the team however his most revealing comments came when he was asked about continuing to run basketball operations what what exactly is the agreement in terms of uh basketball operations is there contractual language

No because you don’t do that in a sale agreement just but there’s a there’s essentially a handshake agreement a gentleman’s agreement oh it’s a partnership right sorry about that it’s a partnership right they’re not basketball people I’m not real estate people that’s why I did it I could have

Gotten more money s it to somebody else even though Mark what happened to two years if the Adison family doesn’t like how the basketball’s going I mean it’s like like anything else I guess they’d have final say for sure um he’s the governor but you know I S like I have a

Contract and a job and I get a salary you know so you know I’m sure we would work it out Mark cubin is no longer the most powerful person in the organization although he expects the Dumont and the Adon to stay focused on the team’s business interests he has nothing that

Legally entitles him to run the Dallas Mavericks basketball operations they could easily cast aside the man who failed to keep Jaylen or attract other stars in the past like Dwight Howard Chris Paul or even LeBron James they landed high-profile targets DeAndre Jordan and Darren Williams that was only

Once they were past their prime one of those instances even included a chair that caged in DeAndre Jordan when the Clippers were trying to keep him which we also have a video on truly bizarre situation if you don’t know what went down there but this unique ownership Arrangement could present a messy

Situation if new ownership doesn’t like what they see on the court what they see right now is a group almost dependent on a superstar to keep them afloat with a team that only knows how to win one way there are trade demand away from becoming irrelevant over the next two

Years before Luca potentially Hits free agency in 2026 that’s in two years and if things don’t go well for the Mavericks this season we could possibly see a trade demand as soon as this off season Dallas has improved their squads since last season’s failure but there’s still a significant gap between them and

The serious content Enders unless they catch up in the near future the Mavericks of today might soon be unrecognizable both on and off of the court and the worst part of all is despite all the improvements they’ve made Dallas Mavericks are once again in the same situation they were in last

Year let me know in the comments section down below how did the Dallas Mavericks fix this is there a trade that they could make is there a change of philosophy that they need to undergo I’d like to hear what you have to say aside from that I’m your boy Mike I’m dropping

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