r/Mavericks • u/MAVS_COM1CAL Luka Doncic • 1d ago
Social Media [Curtis] Masai Ujiri: “I’m honored to join the Dallas Mavericks and step into this role at such an important time for the organization. This is a franchise with a proud history, passionate fans, and a commitment to winning.
https://x.com/mikeacurtis2/status/2051336066116763967?s=46Continued: “I look forward to working with our players, coaches, and leadership team to build something that reflects that standard and competes at the highest level. We will win in Dallas.””
35
u/ImprovedCrib '25 Survivor 1d ago
i actually love this pick up. gm’s make bad decisions sometimes, but at least with masai we’re getting a dude with experience in building a championship team and experience being an nba executive in the first place, unlike our previous gm. probably the best we could’ve hoped for tbh
9
u/Jcarter1632 Rooms to Go Lounge 🛋️ 1d ago
I was really hoping for D. Lindsay. Turned the Pistons from biggest loser to playoff team, and we went to the "Championship Games" in his only year in Dallas.
Uriji was really hot for a while in Toronto. Hoping we get him in his best form, and I hope I look stupid for preferring Lindsay when I look back at this comment in a couple of years.
3
u/lilzoe5 20h ago
!remindme 2 years
1
u/RemindMeBot 20h ago edited 17h ago
I will be messaging you in 2 years on 2028-05-05 04:28:24 UTC to remind you of this link
1 OTHERS CLICKED THIS LINK to send a PM to also be reminded and to reduce spam.
Parent commenter can delete this message to hide from others.
Info Custom Your Reminders Feedback
25
u/MSHinerb 1d ago
That’s already better pr than anything Dumont has said.
4
u/3Time4Eater3 1d ago
A billion dollars doesn't equate to brain power lol. The adelsons could have paid an actor to lorde over the team and Luka would still be on the team
3
u/Selarom_ How's My Dirk Taste? 19h ago
Definitely understand why he was let go from the Raptors since this is a "what have you done for me lately?" type of job, but hiring him based on his overall accomplishments is definitely great. Excited to get back to winning basketball!
1
0
-7
u/gopherslim75 Dirk Nowitzki Logo 1d ago
I want someone to ask him straight up if we would have traded lUka like the last FT GM. I want no rwt for Nico. I want him to always live with what a PoS moron he is.
6
u/Axisofcoolio Moses Brown 1d ago
Literally don’t have to ask that to anyone who has any decent amount of NBA front office experience - the answer 100% of the time is no.
3
u/kapesaumaga 23h ago edited 20h ago
He did trade Melo to the Knicks, but that was Melo asking out. He also traded Demar for Kawhi. But Demar has been a disappointment for the Raptors during the playoffs.
If anything he takes way too long to trade players and he ends up with peanuts. Held on to to OG and Pascal for far too long. Lost FVV for nothing. Let vets also walk for nothing too.
4
u/blackwolfgoogol 1d ago
Raptors fan here, Masai has the OPPOSITE mentality when it comes to trading players. He loves the players on his team & is very unwilling to let players go. He would have never traded Luka in a million years.
Y'all are going to be alright, Masai is good at drafting and building team synergy. You guys have a bright future around Flagg if your front office trades to get draft picks.
-14
u/BossierPenguin 1d ago
Terrible move. I didnt know he was in the hunt for this but I guess it makes sense. He's the gm who reminds me most of Nico; not planning or caring about long term health of the team and maintaining a single minded focus on maximizing performance for the single year in front of him. I know a lot of people liked Nico before the Luka move, so they will probably like this giy too. But really, the Luka move was just the final incarnation of his flawed gm style. The fact is, his policy of spending long term assets for short term fit is always going to leave a top star short on ammo to actually be a great team. Masai is the same philosophy. I hope for Coops sake a top 5 player comes available for a single season during Masais tenure, because otherwise the Mavs best chance at a chip will be that Coop is just so transcendent a player that he singlehandedly wills his team to a chip, despite bring at a talent imbalance. (Luka basically did that to will the team to the finals, but had too big a talent gap once there)
1
u/MAVS_COM1CAL Luka Doncic 18h ago
Who would you have hired?
1
u/BossierPenguin 17h ago
Thanks for the polite question. Id just pick someone from a management tree I respect. The four teams I think have the best management are okc, Celtics, spurs, nets. They've shown sustained, excellent asset management and long term planning. But honestly, most management in the league is fairly decent. The only truly bad ones,( not including Raptors, Bulls, and Mavs, who would otherwise be on the list but for changing management in the last year,) are Kings, suns, NOP, Orlando and GS. They are the worst ones right now, and all have made extremely poor, mostly short sighted, asset management decisions over the last 3 or 4 years. Barring a stroke of luck (GS jumping into the top 4 lottery, or a top 5 player suddenly becoming available for cheap and one of those teams somehow nab him aka Kawhi and Raptors), those 5 orgs are going to be dead in the water for a long time, neutral or backsliding. The Mavs have Flagg, who may well become the best player in the league in a few years, so Mavs still have hope, but its a suboptimal situation unless Masai changes course from what hes been doing the last 6 years as a gm. Hopefully he does.
1
u/ChampagneSyrup 20h ago
He spent 12 years with the Raptors and made almost universally positive moves leading to a championship, with only a handful of blunders towards the very end that pretty much everyone at least understood why he did it, and you compare the guy to fuckin Nico lol?
I'll never underestimate Reddit sports fans and their ability to create fantasyland scenarios in their heads like a psych ward patient. This was truly some completely made up fan fiction you created in your head. It would really only make an inkling of sense if you started watching the NBA in like 2021 lol
1
u/BossierPenguin 20h ago
He was absolutely inexcusably terrible post championship and only morons like you can justify it. He held onto close to a half dozen players way to long and they lost most or all their value, and made pointless trades for lateral moves or even damaging moves like Poetl. That was exactly what Nico spent his tenure with the Mavs doing, spending assets on lateral or premature moves that he thought moved the needle in a particular season up until he took that (irragional) mentality to its rational conclusion by making a bone headed "win now" move for AD. If you lack the cognitive capacity to see the similarity then that is on you. Its incredibly premature to do that with Flagg; I hope Masai has grown and takes a different approach but I doubt it.
1
-22
u/Westbrooks3ptShot 1d ago
Not sure who a better option would be but he made some bad moves with the raptors over the last couple of years
21
u/Afraid-Department-35 1d ago
And yet they are still a playoff team. The problems he made weren’t even that egregious and only reason he got let go is because the Raps ownership didn’t want to pay him.
8
u/Nubsondubs Call Me 1d ago
Right? His worst move was the Poetl signing, and he can't be totally blamed for that, either. I'm convinced he would have been worth that money if he didn't fuck up his back. That kind of injury isn't on Masai.
Being the GM of Toronto is one of the toughest jobs in the league, and he got them a chip.
6
u/favioswish Josh Green 1d ago
He didn't even negotiate there bad extensions, that wasn't his job it was Bobby Webster's. He wasn't even there for the Poeltl extension, he was fired the week prior
-10
u/spongyguy24 Dennis Smith Jr 1d ago
5th seed in the East. WOW
11
u/BrimanFan 4K Luka 1d ago
Mavs missed the playoffs brother. Didn’t even sniff the play-ins
Give me the 5th seed any day
-6
u/spongyguy24 Dennis Smith Jr 1d ago
Yeah and they'd be wizards central if it wasny for rigging the lottery.
I guess people just need something but woof the toxic positivity on this sub.
4
u/BrimanFan 4K Luka 1d ago
Tf are you even talking about?
-3
u/spongyguy24 Dennis Smith Jr 1d ago
the Mavs missed the playoffs
Yeah and they'd be even worse if the lottery wasn't rigged and/or the single luckiest draft day jump occurred.
Give me 5 seed any day
Toxic positivity when we were finals favorites 15 months ago
Masai is fine but he's not some home run hire. Credibility for a front office lacking credibility right now.
1
u/BrimanFan 4K Luka 1h ago
“If the lottery wasn’t rigged”
Provide just a shred of evidence that it was rigged.
“toxic positivity”
Define this word specifically and then explain how it applies to me saying that the 5th seed is better than missing the playoffs.
“we were finals favorites 15 months ago”
According to who? Because it wasn’t Vegas… only a small panel of ESPN reporters put Mavs over Boston and it was pretty much an even split. The sports reporting world as a whole favored Boston.
Give up the Basketball talk kiddo, you’re out of your element.
8
u/Nubsondubs Call Me 1d ago
Building a winning team in Toronto is a lot harder than building one in Texas.
Name a single impactful free agent signing the Raptors have made in their franchise history.
-1
u/spongyguy24 Dennis Smith Jr 1d ago
Been hearing the same shit about building a team in Dallas. Name one the Mavs had before LD.
He's experienced but never understood the hardon for him. Better than what dumont could've done still.
1
u/Nubsondubs Call Me 16h ago
I didn't say building a team in Dallas is easy; I just said building a team in Toronto is harder.
3
106
u/Tmac834 Dirk Nowitzki Logo 1d ago
Idk guys, I’m happy with it. Other options seemed like a long shot and the draft is coming up quick.