One more thing.

The Anthony Davis trade saga is a huge problem for the Dallas Mavericks.

I'm not a doctor, so.

That's it.

It's me versus the machines.

I don't know.

Sock and a chain.

Nice.

In a trading thrust to the middle.

Hot man, the hot layer.

Wait, wait.

One more thing.

Yeah.

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You missed the episode last night for the Mab's game against the Blazers with me and slightly go listen to that one. Today's episode is brought to by Game Time, down on the Game Time Map, create an account, use that code of lockdown NBA for $20, $20 off your first purchase. And today's episode, I want to talk about the Mark Stein piece that dropped because the Anthony Davis trade saga. It's like a, it's like a big conundrum issue for the Dallas Mavericks. We'll talk about that. We'll make it into Anthony Davis's injury and just a bunch of nuggets and pieces about the Mabbs' new GM search, about who's making decisions for the Mavericks right now. Mark Stein dropped this piece on his substack. An absolute must subscribe for every single Mavericks fan. And so all this stuff that I'm going to talk about today comes from that piece and then, you know, people we've talked to and whatever. Let's start here. Marksdown reports that the general consensus league-wide about Anthony Davis is that, no, rival teams expect that the Mavs are going to trade Anthony Davis. They just look at the T-leaves and they say, all right, well, you've got this team right now and you're a win now team and, you know, Anthony Davis was this big piece that got brought in by Nico Harrison, Anthony Davis was Nico's guy, now the Mavericks are moving on. And so of course they're going to move on from Anthony Davis now. The Mabs have their 2026 draft pick. It's, it's, you know, their pick. They own it outright. There's their last chance in the next four years to own a pick like this, to get a high draft pick, really. And so, of course, that they're going to bottom out and they're going to trade Anthony Davis. But then Mark Stein reports this. The general consensus league-wide is that Davis is going to have to put together a sustained stretch of productive basketball in December and January to generate a sort of trade interest that the Mavericks are going to want. And this is the conundrum that the Mavits have now with Anthony Davis. And this is, as I was talking to people at the game last night, you're just like, what do you do? Like, what is the, what is the, what is the, what is the, what is the, what is the, what is the, what is the, what is the, what is the,

and some people want saying this, well, just shut Anthony Davis down. Just shut him down and let the Mavs tank and then you'll just run it back next season and you'll have your full compliment and all that.

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