Mavericks owner Patrick Dumont: “Trading Luka Doncic was a decision about the future. We got to the ‘championship games’, and we didn’t win. So, we had to decide how to get better.”

29 comments

1. when was this?

2. Step 1 get way worse

3. Over/under on the next time Dallas gets to the “championship games?” 15 years?

4. Look everyone, Patrick is showing off his basketball “knowledge”.

5. World’s oldest baby looking ass.

6. I mean, usually you just upgrade your role players. You don’t dump your superstar. That’s a complete overreaction. 

7. “We made the Finals and didn’t win, so we had to get rid of our best player by far who’s still very young, and we had to do it for an infamously injury-prone player who’s 6 years older.”

8. The Blue Jays should trade Vlad Jr.
   —Patrick Dumont

9. This guy called the finals the “championship games.” Bro is not a basketball fan. He has less knowledge then I did when I was 10.

10. I always love how the NBA writes “the championship games” on the court underneath a drawing of the Stanley Bowl 

11. luka was ur ticket to just chill and not have to win sht for a decade and fans would still be happy. now you are grasping for 1 in a million odds.

12. He says “the championship games” like my substitute in high school used to say “the youtube”

    This guy’s a doofus.

13. Shrek might be the dumbest owner in the league

14. We’re going to have to hear about this trade for the rest of our lives. Luka will be holding up the Larry O’Brien trophy in 2028 with his buddy Jokic and we’ll still have to read about why Dumont and Nico traded Luka 4 years ago

15. I guess the Celtics should’ve traded Tatum after losing in ’22

16. Might go down as the dumbest trade in NBA history.

    Others:

    Warriors trading Wilt
    Bucks trading Kareem
    Clippers trading SGA
    Nets trading (Brown Tatum Sexton (as draft picks) then Sexton was traded for Kyrie…
    Jazz trading Magic Johnson for a 35 year old Gail Goodrich

17. How does this guy have so much money when hes a complete moron?

18. total fucking idiot

19. Imagine Denver trading Jokic because they didn’t win it last year

20. We got so close that we realized we had to start over from scratch. Even with the no. 1 pick conspiracy theory, this trade still makes no sense.

21. Proof that intelligence and wealth are not always directly correlated.

22. People who have no idea how to run a team, who never ran a team, never played basketball knows how to build a championship contender. This isn’t the world they came from where, maybe, addition by subtraction can get you to great heights. Sports you gotta build to win. He won’t be successful. They just needed to add around Luka and they would of had a contender for years

23. So trade your best generational franchise cornerstone beloved star for pennies on the dollar. Business 101

24. So you traded the generational player who led you there. Brilliant!

25. The nuggets only won in 2023. They didn’t win before or since, the answer is clearly that it’s time to trade jokic for someone who can play better defense, like gobert

26. Never buying a mavs ticket till the team is sold

27. Fuck the entire Adelson extended family.

28. I don’t have a problem with the concept of trading Luka, it’s just that the package you get in return has to be one of the most generous of any trade ever.

    Dallas shopped to nobody and settled for an offer of buttons. It’s so shit they got Flagg, he doesn’t deserve to play for such a useless franchise, and the franchise deserved a decade in the wilderness with old man AD before any hope showed up.

29. Huge contrast between the Mavs and Thunder on how _not_ to respond to a failed playoffs run.

    Thunder: Added Ihart for size and toughness and Caruso for high energy vet presence. Fixed needs, win the chip.

    Mavs: Screw it let’s trade away our generation star and blow it all up.