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Curious. I wonder how they decided which Mavericks would attend the ESPYs. No Brendan Haywood. No Peja Stojakovic. No DeShawn Stevenson. Maybe they were just on vacation and couldn’t attend. Or maybe they weren’t invited.
Need a compelling reason to save the Prime Time dramas for tomorrow’s Hulu? What could be better than the long-awaited return of Roddy Beaubois?
The media is making far too great a noise about the return of Dallas’ favorite star of the hour. Is he talented? Sure. He’s been called the most explosive guard Dallas has ever seen. That’s saying a lot, considering Steve Nash, Jason Kidd, and Devin Harris have all graced the stage here.
But Roddy’s core talents lie at the two guard position. He’s not a natural quarterback. He’s a finisher. He’s the guy the point guard wants on his team to bail him out when the offense is getting stale.
I hadn’t thought about it until recently after seeing various articles across these here Internets, but the parallels between the careers of Dirk Nowitzki and LeBron James are downright creepy at the moment. Granted, Dirk has nowhere near the talent and starpower LeBron has, but consider:
So the bush league & fragile Mavericks just lost to the championship caliber Spurs in game 6 of Round One in the NBA play-offs. Are we suprised?
nope.
Once again the Pop managed ‘long of tooth yet short of losing spirit’ Spurs bested the hapless Mavericks, despite an underwhelming regular season record against the Mavs.
As it turns out his resting of Duncan, 6th manning Parker et. al. seems to be effective for the post season. I look for them to advance beyond the next rounds and challenge the Lakers (jumping ahead yes) for the right to represent the West.
Pretty funny stuff. Check it out. Mark Cuban gets thrown through a table by the WWE’s Seamus O’Shaunessy.
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Let’s put this to rest once and for all. With the current roster, Dallas doesn’t need Lamar Odom. He doesn’t fit. Odom fits best at the 3 or 4. Let me remind you of the current starting five:
Where do you put Lamar Odom?
The confirmed rumor goes that Mark Cuban is in New York to sweet talk Jason Kidd at 12:01am – the earliest allowable point for free agency talk. Mark wants to get his two cents in before the Knicks come callin’.
Interesting. Should we care? Do we REALLY want Jason Kidd back on the team for $8-10 million? That’s another nice chunk of salary that could go towards a shooting guard or a real power forward.
According to Marc Stein of ESPN.com, Avery Johnson is history. Randy Galloway called it before Game 5. Now the Mavs are in the hunt for a new head coach, and the entire team is in need a serious changes. Mavs fans have been living in a dream world if they think the aging bench of the Mavs will ever help them reach the Finals again.
Reality check time. Firing Avery was probably a rash move on the part of Mark Cuban. But if Avery was really as hard to get along with as Randy Galloway would have us believe, then this was perfect timing.
