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What you don't do is pay nearly $80 million for that kind of production. No way in hell you do. Add on the fact that we gave up 2 first round draft picks and two solid veteran rotation players and the deal looks ridiculous. There's a reason that most experts laughed out loud when they read the terms of the deal, and it's not because they're Mavericks fans. They laughed because Cuban got played BIG time. We've got one of the worst starting centers in the league, and we pay him like he's an all-world player.
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First, the contract is more likely to be in the 60 million range, and even if it goes the full 7 years you're bending reality a bit to call it nearly 80 million. Second, one of the first round picks probably won't end up being a pick from what I've read, and the "two solid veteran rotation players" wouldn't have been that on this team, and barely deserved to be considered that on their new teams, what with Laettner barely sniffing the court in PF-starved Miami, and Najera not really doing anything of note in GS. Third, your memory of the reaction of the experts is different than mine.