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Speaker 1: right here we want to get into a little MAVs talk.
Speaker 1: And on Wednesday, you've got Luka Dancic returning to Dallas
Speaker 1: Fort Worth as a Laker, and man, this has me
Speaker 1: all in my feels I'm just starting to get over
Speaker 1: at the realization that he's gone, and it's all so painful.
Speaker 1: I think it's one of the worst seasons I can
Speaker 1: ever remember as a sports fan, just to go from
Speaker 1: being in the NBA Finals, having a twenty five year
Speaker 1: old mega superstar that's on your team. You have this
Speaker 1: like false sense of security, like, man, we're gonna be
Speaker 1: good for a decade from here, and then suddenly he's
Speaker 1: traded away, and then your whole team gets hurt. It's
Speaker 1: just been a wild, wild ride, and you know, this
Speaker 1: is probably, I don't know, the most hurtful, painful moment
Speaker 1: of it all is going to be him in his
Speaker 1: you know, former home stadium wearing Lakers goal. If he plays,
Speaker 1: I mean, second night of a back to back, you
Speaker 1: don't think of late.
Speaker 2: No. I definitely think he's playing, but I think it's
Speaker 2: fun to throw wild stuff out there.
Speaker 3: Yeah no, no, no, I think.
Speaker 2: He would sit the Oklahoma City game, especially since the
Speaker 2: Lakers destroyed Oklahoma City last night or yesterday afternoon.
Speaker 3: They hammered him.
Speaker 2: Did you guys know that the thunder have the highest
Speaker 2: point differential in NBA history margin of margin of victory.
Speaker 2: I was with someone who wagers, and he was like,
Speaker 2: wait a minute, the Thunder nine and a half point
Speaker 2: favorites over the Lakers. I go, dude, I think that's
Speaker 2: every Thunder game because their point margin is so big,
Speaker 2: and then we looked it up. It's the biggest in
Speaker 2: NBA history. No team is at a consistent winning margin
Speaker 2: like that. Now, the Lakers went in there and absolutely
Speaker 2: destroyed him, and it was primarily Luca that was getting
Speaker 2: it done.
Speaker 3: He was just he would not miss.
Speaker 2: So I think there's zero chance he misses the Dallas
Speaker 2: game unless, and I'm not wanting this obviously, if he
Speaker 2: were to get tweaked or hurt somehow on Tuesday night.
Speaker 2: There's no way he's missing this. I think he's been
Speaker 2: dreaming of this. It is going to be a home
Speaker 2: game away from home, like people are going to wildly
Speaker 2: cheer is loud as they're cheering for the home team
Speaker 2: every time he scores or makes a pass or right.
Speaker 2: So it's gonna be insane. There's no way he misses that.
Speaker 2: I don't even know how to reconcile all the emotions
Speaker 2: going into it, Like it's just.
Speaker 3: I'm a mess.
Speaker 1: It's been a it's been a very difficult season. It's
Speaker 1: been in on top of god, I saw somebody had this.
Speaker 1: They were like the Lakers record since the trade and
Speaker 1: the MAVs record since the trade, and the game's ad
Speaker 1: has played versus the games that Lucas has played, and
Speaker 1: obviously that has really wildly been in the Lakers favor
Speaker 1: and just about every way. You know, the injury plague
Speaker 1: that has just hammered the Mavericks has just been absolutely brutal.
Speaker 1: But you know, again, I was looking for tickets as
Speaker 1: this thing, and the worst ticket in the lower bowls
Speaker 1: going for about six hundred and fifty bucks. Damn.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's a that's a high priced ticket, man,
Speaker 2: That is a I was that the way it was
Speaker 2: for the finals.
Speaker 3: Do y'all remember.
Speaker 2: How much was one ticket in the lower bowl during
Speaker 2: the Finals. Probably more, you think there's more thousand. Okay,
Speaker 2: it's it's going it's gonna be so crazy. I just
Speaker 2: don't think there's gonna be it. It's hard to articulate
Speaker 2: what it's going to even be like because there's never
Speaker 2: really been anything like this, Like even Lebron so Lebron
Speaker 2: going back to Cleveland, for example, when he went to Miami. Well,
Speaker 2: Cleveland was bad, so they were a bottom. They were
Speaker 2: a terrible team, and lebron chose to leave right and
Speaker 2: he actually was from there. I don't I don't know
Speaker 2: what this would even be, like, like what has ever
Speaker 2: happened in sports that's like this?
Speaker 1: And I you know, I I know you get this
Speaker 1: every where you go.
Speaker 3: I still get it everywhere I go. What happened? Why
Speaker 3: would the Mavericks do this?
Speaker 1: And people are still scratching their heads and you still
Speaker 1: get the conspiracy.
Speaker 3: Is it because they're move the team to Vegas? Is
Speaker 3: you know you had all this crazy?
Speaker 1: It doesn't make sense, but it's so stupid that no
Speaker 1: one can make sense of it on just a regular
Speaker 1: level of okay, because you would never trade him for that.
Speaker 3: I would.
Speaker 2: I would everyone recommend. I'm halfway through part two. I
Speaker 2: would have one recommend they go read our buddy mark
Speaker 2: Stein's substack.
Speaker 3: He dropped.
Speaker 2: Uh so he's been doing these Luca Q and A's
Speaker 2: and he dropped part five yesterday and part six today
Speaker 2: and he's he's putting it out there, man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like this stuff. Help help paraphrase it for like,
Speaker 1: explain what it is? What is he saying.
Speaker 2: Okay, like, here's a whole section, so he'll have a header.
Speaker 2: And this is what were Luca's last days as a Maverick, like,
Speaker 2: and so he's going into the whole thinking of the
Speaker 2: front office. After Luca got that injury on Christmas Day
Speaker 2: and what led up to that. It was his third
Speaker 2: believe it years or fourth, and you know, they told
Speaker 2: him in the offseason, hey, you need to come back
Speaker 2: this certain way. And when he came back and wasn't
Speaker 2: that way, they, according to Stein, they took it as
Speaker 2: this guy didn't he's not gonna listen to us, so
Speaker 2: we need to move on.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: That's a whole other thing than what they got for him.
Speaker 2: And we've talked about all that, like, because it's so
Speaker 2: rare that a guy is going to get what's called
Speaker 2: a super max contract that the agent's going to get
Speaker 2: involved and try to stop all that. So Let's people
Speaker 2: are like, well, how come he kept it secret. It's like, okay,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna trade Luca. Well then the agent gets involved
Speaker 2: and does everything he can to stop the trade. Oh,
Speaker 2: you you want to trade for the Luca Lakers, Okay,
Speaker 2: I can guarantee you he'll never sign ever, he'll never
Speaker 2: sign if you do that deal. So go ahead, let's
Speaker 2: see how it works out, and then then what are
Speaker 2: you doing?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 2: And so it's like, I'm not saying I agree with Nico,
Speaker 2: but that's it's not what people want to hear.
Speaker 3: But that's why he did it that way.
Speaker 2: He didn't want the agent involved in a trade for
Speaker 2: a guy that was going to be no longer eligible
Speaker 2: for the Supermax, which so few guys are eligible.
Speaker 3: Right, but he just low return. Again, I'm not saying.
Speaker 2: All I'm saying is here's the reason why you don't
Speaker 2: have to agree with it, but this is the logic
Speaker 2: that went into it. And if you want to read
Speaker 2: how the front office got to where they got with Luca,
Speaker 2: Stein's pretty much putting.
Speaker 3: It out here. Mm hmm.
Speaker 2: I would highly recommend you go read it. And the
Speaker 2: other thing too, is that it's it's not just it's
Speaker 2: not just Luca. There's other people that have been removed
Speaker 2: or left the organization on their own accord because things
Speaker 2: have changed. This happens in every sport. We just haven't
Speaker 2: had it happen with the Mavericks since Cuban bought the
Speaker 2: team from ross Pero junior. You know, Cubans operated the
Speaker 2: team in such a unique matter for so long that
Speaker 2: I can speak from my perspective, I took it for granted.
Speaker 3: I take it for granted how Mark Cuban operates.
Speaker 1: Right, He's like one of us, a passionate fan who
Speaker 1: just happens to also be a billionaire.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I would say that the way that the Mavericks are
Speaker 2: operating now is how it seems like most major league
Speaker 2: sports franchises run in North America, Like, it's a lot
Speaker 2: more like this. The way the Mavericks are going about
Speaker 2: it now is a lot more common. The Mavericks operated
Speaker 2: like it was just a big family, you know, it
Speaker 2: was Cuban's extended family. And there's a lot of people
Speaker 2: that argue that is not the way to run a
Speaker 2: sports franchise. But you know, I think what Maverick fans
Speaker 2: are feeling right now, they probably long for that quite
Speaker 2: a bit.
Speaker 1: So I wonder what that vibe is going to be
Speaker 1: like on Wednesday Night, Like, are more people going to
Speaker 1: be rooting for Luca than are rooting for the MAVs.
Speaker 1: I think get everyone in the building will be rooting
Speaker 1: for Luca, including mav fans. Everyone will be rooting for Luca.
Speaker 2: There will be times when the Mavericks do stuff well,
Speaker 2: cheer for the people, cheer for that.
Speaker 4: But the people that are just there for Luca will not.
Speaker 4: Let's get specific. Then one hundred to one hundred. Uh
Speaker 4: what MAVs lead one oh one, one hundred. The Lakers
Speaker 4: inbound the ball with three seconds left. Luca is shooting
Speaker 4: a shot. What is going through the minds of twenty
Speaker 4: thousand people? Oh my god, I can't believe I'm here
Speaker 4: at this moment. And then if the ball goes in,
Speaker 4: it'll be the loudest cheer you've heard all What do
Speaker 4: they want to happen? They want Luca to want to
Speaker 4: They want him to make it, and the MAVs to lose. Yes,
Speaker 4: ba iron the crap out of that. They don't want
Speaker 4: the Mavericks to lose. They want Luca to make the shot.
Speaker 4: I think there's a difference.
Speaker 1: They would rather, They would rather Luca makes a shot
Speaker 1: and they still MAVs still win by one.
Speaker 3: Because they don't think they're gonna get that. I know, welcome.
Speaker 1: His foot was on the line. K T all right,
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