Dallas Mavericks 2024 Trade thread -- Roster and Cap post 24 FA

[arkuo]

I think Gaff gets traded in the summer. He has value however presents spacing issues with AD in the paint.

[wco81]

Ticket sales and merchandise sales way down.

The Dallas Mavericks are expected to have cost themselves nine figures in revenue over the next few seasons due to the Luka Doncic trade, sources tell ESPN's Tim MacMahon. Attendance has been down since the Doncic trade and so many fans canceled season tickets after the trade that the Mavericks offered limited refunds in attempts of generating some level of goodwill.

The Mavericks have also lost revenue opportunities due to decreasing merchandise sales and sponsors severing ties with the franchise after the Doncic trade.

https://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/279956/Mavericks-Likely-Cost-Themselves-Hundreds-Of-Millions-Of-Dollars-With-Luka-Doncic-Trade

So they didn't give him a 5-year $345 million super max extension but the team may also have cost itself hundreds of millions in revenues over the same time period.

Nico was a Nike executive and he didn't consider the box-office impact or the impact of lost merchandise sales?

Stars get their huge contracts not only for their impact on the court but their impact on revenues.

You'd think a former Nike executive would understand that?

[41Dirk41]

Ticket sales and merchandise sales way down.

The Dallas Mavericks are expected to have cost themselves nine figures in revenue over the next few seasons due to the Luka Doncic trade, sources tell ESPN's Tim MacMahon. Attendance has been down since the Doncic trade and so many fans canceled season tickets after the trade that the Mavericks offered limited refunds in attempts of generating some level of goodwill.

The Mavericks have also lost revenue opportunities due to decreasing merchandise sales and sponsors severing ties with the franchise after the Doncic trade.

https://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/279956/Mavericks-Likely-Cost-Themselves-Hundreds-Of-Millions-Of-Dollars-With-Luka-Doncic-Trade

So they didn't give him a 5-year $345 million super max extension but the team may also have cost itself hundreds of millions in revenues over the same time period.

Nico was a Nike executive and he didn't consider the box-office impact or the impact of lost merchandise sales?

Stars get their huge contracts not only for their impact on the court but their impact on revenues.

You'd think a former Nike executive would understand that?

No... Of course.

Like i said million of time it was collusion.

[Teffer10]

I'm at the point of thinking Mavs should just blow this thing up and trade everyone above age 24 for whatever they can get in terms of draft picks.
Of course fire Nico first and hire someone who knows something about basketball to run the team.
Hell, bring Donnie back please.

[arkuo]

I'm at the point of thinking Mavs should just blow this thing up and trade everyone above age 24 for whatever they can get in terms of draft picks.
Of course fire Nico first and hire someone who knows something about basketball to run the team.
Hell, bring Donnie back please.

But doing that means Nico admits his mistake. With his ego, that's doubtful. The only way I can see the team going into full rebuild is after Nico resigns. Which means he'll hold on to his theory of winning as long as he's at the helm getting his paychecks.

[Mavrelous]

Mavs are in a terrible spot in terms on talent available and draft position, they need to tread very carefully and choose the best option available, this will never be done with Nico Harrison as a GM, he must go for the team to have any progress, the current iteration isn't going to lead the team anywhere.
To wit, except for the bubble season, AD has led the Lakers to 7th seed, 11th seed, 7th seed season, next to LBJ, if Nico thinks AD is leading him anywhere good with max contract rehabbing his torn ACL on the sidelines, he's in for a rude awakening.

[arkuo]

Mavs are in a terrible spot in terms on talent available and draft position, they need to tread very carefully and choose the best option available, this will never be done with Nico Harrison as a GM, he must go for the team to have any progress, the current iteration isn't going to lead the team anywhere.
To wit, except for the bubble season, AD has led the Lakers to 7th seed, 11th seed, 7th seed season, next to LBJ, if Nico thinks AD is leading him anywhere good with max contract rehabbing his torn ACL on the sidelines, he's in for a rude awakening.

They'll be stuck in the middle like those early 2000s Minnesota teams. Too good to tank with KG on board but still too bad to get past the first round.

[41Dirk41]

Mavs are in a terrible spot in terms on talent available and draft position, they need to tread very carefully and choose the best option available, this will never be done with Nico Harrison as a GM, he must go for the team to have any progress, the current iteration isn't going to lead the team anywhere.
To wit, except for the bubble season, AD has led the Lakers to 7th seed, 11th seed, 7th seed season, next to LBJ, if Nico thinks AD is leading him anywhere good with max contract rehabbing his torn ACL on the sidelines, he's in for a rude awakening.

Nico thinks about his pay check from Pelinka/Buss/Adelsons... He doesn't care about the Mavs, i know that you are still trying to convince yourself but it's not a basketball operation.

Our last hope are the Adelsons. Yes. Them.
They can fire Harrison& Dumont because the pressure in the Dallas area is too heavy and people want a change. No other options here.

[arkuo]

Mavs are in a terrible spot in terms on talent available and draft position, they need to tread very carefully and choose the best option available, this will never be done with Nico Harrison as a GM, he must go for the team to have any progress, the current iteration isn't going to lead the team anywhere.
To wit, except for the bubble season, AD has led the Lakers to 7th seed, 11th seed, 7th seed season, next to LBJ, if Nico thinks AD is leading him anywhere good with max contract rehabbing his torn ACL on the sidelines, he's in for a rude awakening.

Nico thinks about his pay check from Pelinka/Buss/Adelsons... He doesn't care about the Mavs, i know that you are still trying to convince yourself but it's not a basketball operation.

Our last hope are the Adelsons. Yes. Them.
They can fire Harrison& Dumont because the pressure in the Dallas area is too heavy and people want a change. No other options here.

I dont think Adelson will fire Nico and her son in law. If it was indeed collusion, Nico squeals the whole story to the media. Once he's fired and his NDAs go away, he'll get back at the people who fired him. I think he has enough protection to stay on. But since Dumont looks like a dumb dumb, he probably did not expect this much revenue drop. How to get revenues back up is their main problem IMO. If by some stroke of "luck", Dallas wins the draft lottery and gets Cooper Flagg, I'm convinced this is collusion and the NBA is involved 100%.

[41Dirk41]

Mavs are in a terrible spot in terms on talent available and draft position, they need to tread very carefully and choose the best option available, this will never be done with Nico Harrison as a GM, he must go for the team to have any progress, the current iteration isn't going to lead the team anywhere.
To wit, except for the bubble season, AD has led the Lakers to 7th seed, 11th seed, 7th seed season, next to LBJ, if Nico thinks AD is leading him anywhere good with max contract rehabbing his torn ACL on the sidelines, he's in for a rude awakening.

Nico thinks about his pay check from Pelinka/Buss/Adelsons... He doesn't care about the Mavs, i know that you are still trying to convince yourself but it's not a basketball operation.

Our last hope are the Adelsons. Yes. Them.
They can fire Harrison& Dumont because the pressure in the Dallas area is too heavy and people want a change. No other options here.

I dont think Adelson will fire Nico and her son in law. If it was indeed collusion, Nico squeals the whole story to the media. Once he's fired and his NDAs go away, he'll get back at the people who fired him. I think he has enough protection to stay on. But since Dumont looks like a dumb dumb, he probably did not expect this much revenue drop. How to get revenues back up is their main problem IMO. If by some stroke of "luck", Dallas wins the draft lottery and gets Cooper Flagg, I'm convinced this is collusion and the NBA is involved 100%.

But Nico doesn't care about this job, he said it in a press conference. I mean he said he doesn't care about be Mavs GM in a press conference!!!

In Europe he would already be six feet under

Nico is fine and he probably already setted his new job so he will not squeal anything.

[Teffer10]

Mavs are in a terrible spot in terms on talent available and draft position, they need to tread very carefully and choose the best option available, this will never be done with Nico Harrison as a GM, he must go for the team to have any progress, the current iteration isn't going to lead the team anywhere.
To wit, except for the bubble season, AD has led the Lakers to 7th seed, 11th seed, 7th seed season, next to LBJ, if Nico thinks AD is leading him anywhere good with max contract rehabbing his torn ACL on the sidelines, he's in for a rude awakening.

The Lakers game really showed me that we are much more than a fully healthy Kyrie from being a legit contender.

Agree...we really are in just about the worst situation a team can be in.
We had Luka enough this season to get enough wins to barely make the POs giving us a 0% chance of landing a star in this draft. Then next season Nico will put us in a situation to compete for the 7th or 8th spot giving up any chance to land a star in the 2026 draft.
In 2 years when we'll need to be in full rebuild mode, we wont have any draft picks.

[arkuo]

Nico thinks about his pay check from Pelinka/Buss/Adelsons... He doesn't care about the Mavs, i know that you are still trying to convince yourself but it's not a basketball operation.

Our last hope are the Adelsons. Yes. Them.
They can fire Harrison& Dumont because the pressure in the Dallas area is too heavy and people want a change. No other options here.

I dont think Adelson will fire Nico and her son in law. If it was indeed collusion, Nico squeals the whole story to the media. Once he's fired and his NDAs go away, he'll get back at the people who fired him. I think he has enough protection to stay on. But since Dumont looks like a dumb dumb, he probably did not expect this much revenue drop. How to get revenues back up is their main problem IMO. If by some stroke of "luck", Dallas wins the draft lottery and gets Cooper Flagg, I'm convinced this is collusion and the NBA is involved 100%.

But Nico doesn't care about this job, he said it in a press conference. I mean he said he doesn't care about be Mavs GM in a press conference!!!

In Europe he would already be six feet under

Nico is fine and he probably already setted his new job so he will not squeal anything.

For now he sure won't. He's an accomplice in all this. Of course he won't sink the ship while he's on it.

Europe is irrelevant in the discussion. That's division 2 compared to the NBA. When you have Europeans looking for overseas employment in the US, then it doesn't matter. Plain and simple. There may be a day when leagues in Europe pay bigger than the NBA for all the stars to move to the other side, but I wouldn't count on it yet. That's like saying Nico will sweat himself to death in the African heat. Well, sure, but that's not gonna happen yeah? Nico will never work in Europe. It will surprise me if he does move though. So it's irrelevant. I doubt he'll be walking by himself outside in a street in Dallas alone as well. He'll have security with him for a long long time. He's seen the reaction from the game.

[arkuo]

Mavs are in a terrible spot in terms on talent available and draft position, they need to tread very carefully and choose the best option available, this will never be done with Nico Harrison as a GM, he must go for the team to have any progress, the current iteration isn't going to lead the team anywhere.
To wit, except for the bubble season, AD has led the Lakers to 7th seed, 11th seed, 7th seed season, next to LBJ, if Nico thinks AD is leading him anywhere good with max contract rehabbing his torn ACL on the sidelines, he's in for a rude awakening.

The Lakers game really showed me that we are much more than a fully healthy Kyrie from being a legit contender.

Agree...we really are in just about the worst situation a team can be in.
We had Luka enough this season to get enough wins to barely make the POs giving us a 0% chance of landing a star in this draft. Then next season Nico will put us in a situation to compete for the 7th or 8th spot giving up any chance to land a star in the 2026 draft.
In 2 years when we'll need to be in full rebuild mode, we wont have any draft picks.

Whatever Nico and Dumont got financially, needs to be worth all of what you mentioned above. That's the part the I'm actually curious about. If money changed hands, then the question is how much.

[41Dirk41]

I think Nico will quit in the off season, probably with a victim press conference, because his and his family lifes is very awkward right now.

[arkuo]

I think Nico will quit in the off season, probably with a victim press conference, because his and his family lifes is very awkward right now.

LOL that would make the fans even angrier. Trade Luka for a small package then leave the whole team in a few months time. Might as well not do the trade and leave altogether. But we are way past that scenario now. Personally I want him to see it through. But Dumont being neck deep in cash, my guess is he throws a ton of money at Bob Myers to be the new GM. I remembered him hiring that old guy to be the new president or something. That guy was formerly from Golden State as well. I remember Dumont snickering in that interview saying he can be very persuasive. Tells me he doesn't know how to do things. He just throws cash at it and see if it works out. Money seems to be a really big motivator for the guy. Which is why I really think Lakers paid him a ton.

[Mavrelous]

https://www.mavsmoneyball.com/2025/4/11/24406232/time-to-move-on-from-nico-harrison-and-jason-kidd

[41Dirk41]

https://www.mavsmoneyball.com/2025/4/11/24406232/time-to-move-on-from-nico-harrison-and-jason-kidd

They read our posts

[41Dirk41]

I think Nico will quit in the off season, probably with a victim press conference, because his and his family lifes is very awkward right now.

LOL that would make the fans even angrier. Trade Luka for a small package then leave the whole team in a few months time. Might as well not do the trade and leave altogether. But we are way past that scenario now. Personally I want him to see it through. But Dumont being neck deep in cash, my guess is he throws a ton of money at Bob Myers to be the new GM. I remembered him hiring that old guy to be the new president or something. That guy was formerly from Golden State as well. I remember Dumont snickering in that interview saying he can be very persuasive. Tells me he doesn't know how to do things. He just throws cash at it and see if it works out. Money seems to be a really big motivator for the guy. Which is why I really think Lakers paid him a ton.

Angrier than now? Are you serious? He needs bodyguards anytime

[Darren]

I seriously doubt Houston part with Jalen Green or Sengun for KD. The Mavs would be dumb to pull a major blockcluster to become the next Pheonix Suns. I think I won't part with Lively or Gafford in any KD trade. That's PJ, Klay, fillers and picks at most. If Houston or San Antonio parts with more, I don't want to trade a farm for KD. Luka trade do not even give the Mavs a farm. Let alone 36 yo KD on expiring contract. Will Kyrie opts out this summer?

[Darren]

I think the Mavs needs to train Lively and Christie to be way more impactful players on both ends coming offseason. Both need to get stronger to be better defensive archors while take more initiatives to be significantly better offensive players. Teams sleep on the duos a lot last month.