There's one free agency decision that still haunts Cuban to this day
era, he wanted to maximize the franchise's greatest player as much as possible, even if that often resulted in disappointment."Dwight Howard, for sure," Cuban started. "We wanted to get a big to be next to Dirk and we had cap room finally because we never had cap room since the time I'd been there. We thought we had something worked out with him, and we actually traded down in the draft to get enough cap room and missed on the 'Greek Freak,' onbecause of it.
Trading down in the 2013 NBA Draft was the real mistake. There were a lot of rumors at the time that Dallas wanted Giannis, who was an unknown and unfinished product from Greece, but they decided to trade down from the 13th pick to the 16th to clear a little cap room and Giannis went 15th to the. With him off the board, they traded down again to the 18th selection and ended up with Shane Larkin, who played in 48 games for the Mavs before he was traded to the Knicks to bring back Tyson Chandler.
Meanwhile, Antetokounmpo became a two-time MVP, the Defensive Player of the Year in 2019, and won a championship in 2021. There is even a timeline where the Mavs end up with Antetokounmpo andas Giannis took a few years to progress, not making an All-Star game until 2017. Dallas already had to trade up in the 2018 Draft to acquire Doncic and they could've done the same, albeit with a much bigger jump likely needed, to pair Doncic and Giannis together.
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