The Mavericks didn’t make major moves before the trade deadline, though Mark Cuban says he tried to get more done.
“We tried. We came really, really close on a couple deals. Two really big pieces,” Cuban said on Shan and RJ on 105.3 The Fan (h/t SportsDay) “They were both three-team deals, and in one case was a trade-and-extend and we couldn’t get the player to agree on terms. And the other piece, one of the teams just decided they didn’t want to trade a key guy to make it happen.”
A report after the trade deadline indicated that the Mavs made an effort to acquire Danny Green from the Lakers as part of L.A.’s Marcus Morris talks with New York. The Lakers were said to be unwilling to surrender both Green and Kyle Kuzma in that deal, so that sounds like the second would-be trade Cuban is referring to.
Cuban feels good about Dallas’ roster. He hopes the team can pull out homecourt advantage in the first round. He also would like to see the squad win a playoff series.
“Trust me, I know as well as anybody we haven’t won a playoff round since the championship season and so, you know, that’s our goal, and then from there we hope to build on that and see what happens,” Cuban said.
Bringing Luka Doncic and Kristaps Porzingis along further is also a goal for the second half of the season. Cuban doesn’t believe the Mavericks have played their best basketball yet.
“Because of the injuries, losing Dwight Powell was a big blow for us, you know, now we’ve got two new guys we’ve got to integrate, Luka coming back, [Porzingis] you know, everybody getting their minutes straight and their roles straight. It’s like any other Mavs team when we were making runs. It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish,” Cuban said. “If we can get a good run going to end the season going into the playoffs… everybody on that team believes they can beat anybody.”
How long before the Kings regret not taking Luca? Crazy how lucky Dallas gets again like with Dirk
Every team usually has draft regrets. Darko?
Haha Darko is my cat’s name!
Before? They regretted it last year.
I feel like I remember reading around his draft time that if he was picked by the clippers or kings he wouldn’t come to the states and would continue playing in Europe?
Might explain why those FO didnt select him
Danny Green was definitely that “key player” he was talking about.
Yea and the first one who wanted extend his contract is probably Gallinari
Wouldn’t*
Fournier.
I wonder if Drummond was the other player they couldn’t extend who else is on an expiring deal ?
Cant extend drummond since he has a player option….
Gallo
It was Danny Green and Andre Iguolala
It wasnt iggy
Plus why would you want two players who play the same position and do almost the same thing
It was green and galinari
Very off topic but next year can we bring in a rising stars dunk contest aswell as extend the normal contest to 6 instead of 4.
Watching the last moments of this game and man these kids can bounce.
Save the dunk contest for the big names Aaron Gordon Zach LaVine Donovan Mitchell Blake Griffin Andrew Wiggins Derrick Jones Jr DeMare DeRozan Russell Westbrook Giannis Antetokounmpo and so on and so on.
But next year can we have a rising stars one.
RJ Barrett Ja Morant Zion Williamson Brandon Clarke Nassir Little
Then have the two winner go head to head
Dream line up
SpidaMitchell LaVine Gordon Russ DeRozan DJJ
And
Zion Ja Barrett A.Simons Z.Smith H.Diallo
Terence Davis has hops.
Not sure about style, but that man can get above the rim for a smaller guy
Wiggins and Gallinari
Dallas doesnt have cap to get both wiggins and gallo……..
Dallas doesnt have cap/salary to acquire both wiggins and gallo……..
What! Atlanta, Phoenix, sac all regret it already. Doncic is in the running for mvp. Ayton young and Bagley are bums and deplorable losers