2021 nba offseason draft free agency etc

heres your office pay no mind to the professional gambler recently described as the most powerful person in the organization who btw our franchise player cant stand to look at

lamelo roty btw

lamelo lafrance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATjz5t9iTkw

luka press conference statement tomorrow...

Luka Doncic, from Slovenia with his national team, on Donnie Nelson's Mavericks exit:

"It was kind of tough to me. I really like Donnie. I know him since I was a kid and he was the one that drafted me. It was tough for me seeing that, but I'm not the one making decisions there."

— Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) June 17, 2021

Not yet, anyway.

The New Orleans Pelicans have been unable to put together the right elements to make Zion Williamson and his family happy, per @TheAthleticNBA

"Multiple sources have told The Athletic that certain family members want Williamson on another team." 😳 pic.twitter.com/6kfWYLqX4V

— NBA Central (@TheNBACentral) June 17, 2021

pelicans gotta be like “okay… and…”

Move them to Seattle pleeease

if you want to be drafted onto an already good team you should try being the 20th best player in the draft and not the 1st best

woww

Rick Carlisle -- who led Dallas to the 2011 NBA championship -- informed Mavericks owner Mark Cuban today that he won't be returning as coach next season, Carlisle told ESPN. Carlisle had two years left on his contract. He spent 13 seasons as Mavericks coach.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) June 17, 2021

Damn

he should check out the boston celtics job listings

Rick Carlisle statement to ESPN: pic.twitter.com/zdKA8sWa4Y

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) June 17, 2021

Cuban is such a shithead

we need the behind the scenes tell all asap

Just a normal org doing normal things

everything seems fine over there

someone teach rick to crop out the keyboard

hmm haralabob not mentioned in the note

wow, way to lose the 3rd or 4th best coach in the nba

feel like carlisle will be an interesting barometer for whether coaches of a certain stature will wanna work for stevens bcuz on paper you'd think that would be a pretty great match

i guess this is the price you pay for having the best 22 year old player in the world

There had been simmering tension between Luka Doncic and Rick Carlisle that was a concern within the Mavs organization. The expectation was that he'd return next season, but he'd have been on the hot seat. https://t.co/YRJ1fwQ6GQ

— Tim MacMahon (@espn_macmahon) June 17, 2021

seems like the celtics are intent on going after someone more in the young black ex player range but who knows

Luka Doncic is a strong supporter of Mavs assistant coach Jamahl Mosley. “He’s got the things that are needed for a head coach," Doncic said after Mosely's one-game fill-in for a win over the Knicks this season. "He can be the head coach, for sure.”

— Tim MacMahon (@espn_macmahon) June 17, 2021

i think carlisle is prob the best coach in the game but hes not exactly a players coach and thats dicey these days

"he can be the head coach, for sure, instead of the guy who is currently the coach, who i don't like, theoretically speaking, of course"

luka divadoncic

lol

Rick Carlisle really told Mark Cuban, “and for that reason, I’m out”

— Paolo Uggetti (@PaoloUggetti) June 17, 2021

wonder if any teams are getting knocked out tonight that may be in need of a head coach

We had an argument about the organizational merits of the Dallas Mavericks about 2 weeks ago

lol its true

makes too much sense carlisle is the master of making weird pieces fit

Carlisle had two years left on his contract in Dallas, but there are five other coaching openings in the NBA and possibly more forthcoming. He'll easily land another job.

Rumblings about Milwaukee as a destination -- IF the Bucks make a change -- have been circulating for weeks.

— Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) June 17, 2021

tbh not very unusual for a star to win a power struggle over a coach even if the coach is rick carlisle. ask the spurs whether they’d rather have let kawhi win that organizational power struggle

the chances are pretty high that the mavs are playing as a top 4 seed in the west by dec/jan next year and this is all just remembered as some fun offseason drama, which it is

idk would not want to be the coach who has to make this mavs roster work as well as carlisle did

btw listening to tim macmahon on zach lowes pod rn thats how bad i want the dirt "mavs front office has been a mess for a while" "mark cuban is the mavs gm, makes all the basketball decisions"

"chandler parsons had cubans ear for a while" lmao

wow lagooon breaking his code and listening to a podcast??? hella thirsty for the dramz

im saying

says everyone except cuban hates bob voulgaris

the podcast is rly good. chandler pardons having decision making power is incredible

i’ve realized one of the most important qualifications you can have as an aspiring NBA GM is being named donnie

from the pod

Luka yelled at Carlisle in the middle of a game once “who’s in charge, you or Bob?”

— Azaz (@AzazNYK) June 17, 2021

cuban being a meddling owner has always been pretty much implicit

yeah

feed me the drama I need it

Mark Cuban hired a Twitter goon who forced out a top 5 coach. To me this is not a great situation

haven’t listened to the lowe pod yet but my impression is that it was the tension with luka that got carlisle to leave, the haralabob thing seems related and not great but not in a direct way maybe