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“I would not trade Cooper Flagg for Luka… Cooper Flagg, I believe right now is a top 10 player.”👀 - Tim MacMahon (h/t @TheNBABase )

"He (Anthony Davis) fits our time frame" Traded to Wizards 368 days after the trade "The future to me is 3-4 years from now.. 10 years from now no I dont know.. Prolly bury me and J by then or we bury ourselves" nico fired: 283 days later kidd fired: 473 days later

BREAKING: The Mavericks just announced they have mutually parted ways with coach Jason Kidd. They are parting ways with everyone involved with the Luka trade 👀 #MFFL

Patrick Dumont says he called Masai Ujiri first. Masai says Dumont checked his phone ONE time during the five-hour meeting. He also says they got kicked out of the restaurant and then continued to speak outside the restaurant. Masai also says Dumont's security had to tell him his wife was looking for him 😂

Masai Ujiri was asked if he would’ve ever traded Luka Dončić: “I’m going to say it again, we have to respect everybody and everything that has happened here. [Luka Dončić] is a hall of fame player. He is gone. He will always be a Maverick. We’ll celebrate him in the best possible way, like we’re going to celebrate all the Maverick players and stars that have been here; but, we have to move. We really have to move on. It’s not for me to start criticizing what anybody else is doing. It’s for me to criticize what I am doing, and worry about what I’m going to do. If I continue to harp on that, then I think all of you are going to be asking me what I am doing. I have to look to future; because winning is what we have to do here. And winning is a responsibility of mine.”

Luka @lukadoncic, Please Get In The Game! Take A Shot Of Cortisone And Deal With The Pain! They Are Paying You 50 Million A Year, And You’re Not There! WTF! I Hope @JeanieBuss Trades You Next Year. Nobody Wants A Lame Duck On Their Team!

Celebrating fifteen years of American rock band Low (@lowtheband @subpop)’s ninth album C'mon, released on this day in 2011.✨

Kidd on the accusations that he was in on the Luka trade: “When are we going to move on? We have to move forward. We're focused on the present and the future and we've got an incredible opportunity to build.” #MFFL | h/t dallasnews.com/sports/maveri…

In the interview with Intersections, Mark Cuban said Finley had no involvement in the Luka trade and that Kidd DID play a role. “That doesn’t justify it for our coach and general manager to stand up and trade our best player.”

With the existence of AI art, is my perspective shifting? Like, for instance, if somebody did a bad job photoshopping their album cover, I used to judge that as ‘not professional looking’. But now, since everyone can get a professional level art performance out of AI, and do so without acknowledging whether they used AI at all, if I can tell it’s made by hand, I like it more because of that. So has my bar for human made art lowered because AI exists and it now has added value for being human made to me? How will that scale in my life? How fast will my opinion change?

NEW: Influencer Khaby Lame signs a $975M deal, authorizes use of his personal brand, Face ID, voice ID, and behavioral models, enabling the creation of an AI-powered digital twin. Lame started posting on TikTok back in 2020 after being fired from his job. He now has over 350,000,000 followers across platforms. He signed an all-stock deal with 'Rich Sparkle Holdings' worth just shy of $1B. "[Lame] has also authorized the development of an AI-powered digital twin. A digital twin is a virtual replica of something real, whether it be a place, an object, or a person," Complex reported. "To create it, Lame will enable Rich Sparkle to copy his facial features, voice patterns, and behavior. This will allow the company to create multilingual content, or even virtual livestreams with the streamer's digital doppelganger." Rich Sparkle predicts the deal could generate over $4B in annual sales. Insane.

Draymond Green came to Nico Harrison’s defense, saying we never truly got to see the roster he built at full strength “Y'all just want to go point the finger at Nico because that was a storyline…That is whack to me.” (🎥 @DraymondShow )

Nico Harrison’s exit from the Mavericks as GM after four-plus seasons is regarded as imminent and could happen as soon as today, @TheSteinLine has learned.

Just spoke with the fan that sat next to Patrick Dumont tonight… He said that Dumont told him: - He felt bad for the Luka trade - What he did wasn’t in the best interest of the franchise - He made a mistake and he’s trying to rectify it - Wants to win back the fanbase

.@MagicJohnson has a message for Luka Doncic 👀 "It's great what you did in Dallas. But the difference is, in Los Angeles, we expect championships. And we expect our superstars to lead us to a championship. LeBron has already done that. Now we want Luka to do the same thing."

Anthony Davis on how he sums up the season post-trade: "I'm just very appreciative I get to play the game of basketball. Appreciative to Dallas & the fanbase and my teammates of accepting me & welcoming me with open arms, given the situation. It's part of basketball. You can't control what goes on. ... The injury happened & I tried to do everything I could to get back on the floor to finish the season & try to carry us into the playoffs. I'm just appreciative."