“It's a decision, team sources told ESPN, that probably will cost the franchise nine figures over the next several years, as the Mavs are projected to lose dozens of millions in revenue this season due to dwindling crowds, plummeting merchandise sales and sponsors severing ties with the franchise in the wake of the trade. So many fans canceled season tickets in the days after the trade that the Mavs attempted to generate some goodwill by offering limited refunds.”

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  2. Dozens of millions, over 9 figures, over the next several years, you say? Fascinating

  3. Oh no the owners will only enjoy billions in appreciation and some reduced gate over the next decade oh noooo anything but that

  4. Jerry Jones has often been accused of being a great businessman and a mediocre GM. Feel like the Mavs have bad FO and bad business.

  5. Dallas front office asking if Anthony Davis bobble head night will mitigate some of the loss.

  7. Yeah, you could look at it like they are going to lose billions of dollars, but if you were fully using your brain like the owners, you’d realize that you’re saving hundreds at the snack bar by getting rid of that fat tub of lard perennial MVP candidate.

  9. Also for people who keep saying it’s about money, it’s not. Players with Luka level of stature and fame basically pay themselves and more with the money they bring to the team.

  10. Interesting. Wonder if the owners have a place in mind where they think the team would make money…

  15. What if AD requests a trade in the offseason? i can’t think he is enjoying being the guy the fans are stuck with in luka’s place.

  18. The conspiracy theorist in me sees this and says that’s what the owners wanted so they could move to Vegas at some point

  19. Milwaukee might not have a team if Giannis didn’t pan out. The Deer District wouldn’t exist either. 

  21. Every day it becomes more and more believable that all of this is to service a plan to take the team away from Dallas. They are simultaneously killing and manipulating the fanbase.

  23. Decisions like this illustrate that just because someone is making high level decisions, it doesn’t mean they have a clue what they are doing

  28. There should be a full on investigation into the constant meetings that Nico and Pelinka were having, this whole ordeal just reeks of corruption

  32. The wildest thing about this, pertaining to opinion on how you should feel for Nico Harrison, and I sure don’t envy him, is that this wound was entirely self-inflicted and entirely avoidable. No one told him to rip the heart and soul out of a whole city for no good reason. If he’d come up to me and said, “I’m gonna trade Luka, how do you think fans will treat me?” I would’ve told him exactly what has happened, would happen. Would’ve told him he’d be making himself the most loathed man in the state of Texas, and would probably wanna leave town. How could it be more obvious?

    I heard the owner laughed when Nico first pitched the trade idea to him. He should’ve kept laughing, laughed him all the way to the airport with a one way ticket to LA.

  36. Luka was expected to make 345 mil had the Mavs kept him.

    The question is, with all these contracts expiring after 2027(including Lukas), are they saving money when you consider the taxes to keep competing for the 5 years after 2027.

    Like do Dallas owners rather have low revenue and a lower team payroll after 2027 and still a be profitable lottery team or would they have made more money being over the cap, have that slim chance of winning it( even if he did make the finals, it is very hard to make it often without a super team) and paying lots of taxes?

    Because once they made their mind about cheaping out and they were very convinced that they would land the next Jordan,Bird, Kobe or Shaq does this strategy work?

  37. Again, I cannot believe anyone who can tell me with a straight face that trading a generational player was a “smart idea”. This feels like just good ‘ol fashioned tanking of a franchise to move them elsewhere and they traded him to the Lakers “just because”

    Shit would be like if the Thunder went “WELP, we know we gotta pay SGA $300M+ in the offseason…..time to trade him away for fucking James Harden, stirahgt up. Welcome back, James!!!”

  38. Players like Luka are underpaid even getting the max, owners should have learned that with Lebron already.

  39. Just thinking about that redditor who told me that this would make no financial difference because of revenue sharing and they were still selling out in the few games following the trade.

    But in their defense, who could have foreseen this extremely predictable outcome?

  40. Didn’t Cuban say he lost money every year? Crazy propaganda to blame it on the Luka trade now

  41. Was this why Cuban looked disappointed after hearing those fire Harrison chants?

  42. >Harrison ultimately convinced Mavs governor Patrick Dumont, the front man for the family that bought the majority share of the franchise from Mark Cuban last season, that signing Doncic to a five-year, $345 million supermax extension this summer would be a poor investment, primarily due to the belief that the superstar’s body would break down because of his perceived lackadaisical approach to conditioning.

    For anyone who thinks that this trade was done for the Mavs to move to Vegas, I think this excerpt makes it clear that this isn’t the case at all. It’s a reasonable conspiracy theory because this trade is terrible, but unfortunately there’s no conspiracy here. Ownership doesn’t know ball, though even they found the trade to be laughable at first (if they wanted to move the team to Vegas, they’d have sign off immediately), and Nico quite literally took advantage of their lack of ball knowledge.

    The story is simple: Nico geniunely hates Luka. Nico loved Kobe (Nico worked with Rob Pelinka, Kobe’s agent, while at Nike), and he thought Luka didn’t embody his Mamba Mentality because he was fat and out of shape. He doesn’t want to pay Luka big money because he thinks Luka’s lack of conditioning will catch up to him, so he calls up his buddy Rob Pelinka to see if they want to swap Luka for Anthony Davis (a Nike-endorsed athlete).

    I’m fully convinced that Nico, a former Nike exec, is also trying to create a Superteam with Nike-endorsed athletes. Kyrie, AD… I think the missing piece is KD – how they get him is another story.

  46. Never seen a fanbase turn it’s back on a team like this, not saying it isn’t deserved but it’s astonishing to watch 

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