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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. Wang Zhi Zhi once got 18k people a free chalupa. In my house Wang Zhi Zhi is a hero.
  2. Caleb Martin? Y’all are mad about the Caleb trade? Good. Next I hope they trade all future picks to LA for the rights to Kwame Brown. I hope Kyrie demands a trade. I hope Nico gets Noro and shits himself at the presser where he shows off the colorful beads and pieces of hempen string he got for Kyrie. I hope that Jörmungandr and Hel break their chains, Fenrir swallows Odin, and that Surtr covers the earth in fire. Fuck Nico and fuck everything else.
  3. I’m not talking about the fans in the arena. NBA atmosphere is a function of ticket prices. People who are/were Mavs fans first are nothing like primary Cowboys or Rangers fans. The real Mavs fans are city kids from Dallas proper and Oak Cliff who went to DISD schools and have actually been in a fist fight. In particular people who went through the late 80s and early 90’s with the Mavs are the opposite of bandwagon fans. People who are Rangers fans first are “DFW Metro area” people and 972 girls. The Cowboys and Stars attract a lot of those two groups also, but that’s are where bandwagon people gravitate. The Stars also have some really rabid fans who hate the bandwagon. I love(d) all three, but I am (or was) Mavs first, Rangers second and Cowboys third.
  4. The venn diagram of international Mavs fans and international fans whose favorite team is the Lakers is a circle. I have his jersey
  5. It takes the consent of the board of governors, ie the owners. Not really. It would be more lucrative to move there, then decide whether to give the city that lost the franchise an expansion team. The Mavericks are a large local market team with no national fan base, and not for nothing, are the distantly third most important franchise in their own market. I would argue that until Sunday the Mavericks had the most passionate and loyal fan base in the league. They inherited that spot when the Sonics moved out of Seattle and the Warriors left Oakland.
  6. How are the stated objective of the ownership group (a Casino complex in DFW) or their heavily implied plan B (a new casino complex and NBA team in Las Vegas) a conspiracy theory? Those things aren’t conspiratorial. The only question is whether this trade happened explicitly because of, or as part of indirect service to, those objectives. it fits either way. There will be a Casino AND a new stadium in DFW or the Mavs are gone.
  7. Once they get Augustine-pilled it’s very difficult to deprogram them.
  8. I couldn’t do it. The music died on Sunday and I don’t know when or if I’ll be able to watch an NBA game again. This is the lowest moment I have ever experienced as a fan. Utter, complete, shock and betrayal.
  9. I’m not a Republican and I live in Texas. I don’t have to imagine
  10. This is like saying there’s no way a Nuclear Holocaust could have actually happened in 1983 because Stanislav Petrov was there to prevent it. Tell me more Pangloss, about this, the best of all possible worlds.
  11. I think it’s high time Democrats stop saving them from them.
  12. Because Luka to LA maximizes the value of the league, not to mention Nico’s former employer Nike. Everybody wins in this deal except fans of the Mavericks. If AD makes the Mavs better short term, or even he doesn’t, Nico can sneak off with the league, Nike, and the Adelsons owing him a bundle, and then reemerge on top somewhere else a year or two later. Like the song says- the sun shines, and people forget.
  13. Blue sky or Threads huh? Sure, because it’s important to ignore the largest platform.
  14. Senator Warren: scolding her way to irrelevance since 2014
  15. I bet 30 days is long enough for the Avocado and Banana factories in Ohio and Michigan to get turned around.
  16. Just wait until the poorly-executed-whisper-campaign-about-Lukas-selfish-attitude gets underway and immediately exposed in public.
  17. The capital markets are the 5th Branch
  18. and one more thing: of course a trade like this undermines the credibility of the league, but the whole league probably gets more valuable with Luka Doncic as a Laker than with the Mavericks. The Mavericks are like Milwaukee- great local fan base, some international fans that follow their foreign players, and no national bandwagon. AND the Venn diagram of international fans who love Luka but already liked the Lakers is a circle. in soccer terms, the Lakers are Man U, and the Mavs are … Crystal Palace, maybe?
  19. Um. No. 1) the owners and the league don’t need to “want it” they only would need to allow it. Can you think of the last time they stopped a move? Do you know what every move that did happen involved? A new stadium in the new city and a failure of the old city to give away enough to make a new stadium happen. 2) moving does not take money out of the other owners pockets unless the league loses value or TV contracts become less expensive. And of course, Vegas offers synergies to alternative revenue streams that are growing, as opposed to declining TV viewership. 3) As I said, moving to Vegas is plan B and is connected to a new stadium and casino gambling. Plan A is staying in North Texas and building a new stadium and a Casino. Casino gambling is the requirement for the Adelsons. Staying in Dallas is optional. 5) Having traded Luka Doncic, can you imagine the city of Dallas or the fans doing what it takes to replace the AAC? This isn’t some conspiracy, it’s just not about sports. This is sports business.
  20. I seem to recall a very short-lived confederacy of sovereign states who felt that cotton production gave them such powerful leverage over the European powers that it would forced them to break a naval blockade and otherwise use their economic might to influence the outcome of a regional war over slavery. The confederacy miscalculated and “Egyptian cotton” became a mainstay of American and European textile manufacturing
  21. Oh, bless your heart
  22. Talking about good government with Anastasis is like talking about highway safety with TxTow.
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