NBA Rumors: Idea Dwight Howard and Deron Williams Will Sign with Mavs Is a Joke
Mark Cuban never learned that thinking two steps ahead is useless when the goal is unobtainable.
Cuban is ready to blow up the Dallas Mavericks championship roster over a pipe dream that is technically not impossible. By March 15, he will wake up from his euphoric dream to the nightmare that the possibility of signing Dwight Howard and Deron Williams no longer exists.
According to ESPN’s Tim MacMahon, the odds that the two superstars team up with Dirk Nowitzki this summer are rising. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to imagine the pieces fitting into Cuban’s deranged puzzle.
But only a mad scientist would put all of his eggs in one basket over the odds that such a series of events will possibly go down.
This isn’t franchise mode in NBA 2K where one team gets to make all of the moves. Believe it or not, there are other owners out there that are awake, breathing and would never let Cuban’s fairy tale morph into reality.
More specifically, there are owners in Orlando and New Jersey who are rolling at such a distorted idea.
While he’s wiping away the tears of laughter, Richard DeVos must feel insulted. He lived through the disaster that was Shaquille O’Neal’s testing of the waters. Why in the world would the Magic’s owner fall victim to the axiom fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me?
Mikhail Prokhorov may be busy running for president in Russia, but he isn’t forgetful enough to let Williams avoid moving to Brooklyn.
He and Jay-Z gave up Devin Harris, the promising Derrick Favors, two first-round picks and some pocket change, $3 million, for the All-Star point guard. Prokhorov isn’t unintelligent enough to let Williams walk, which would leave the billionaire with nothing but a wallet full of Benjamins.
These owners don’t live under a rock. They watched LeBron James say adios to Cleveland and Chris Bosh spurn Toronto. New Jersey actually lived the free agency bonanza as they failed in their own quest to recruit LeBron.
DeVos and Prokhorov know Howard and Williams will bolt at season’s end and that they must make a move to stay relevant.
D12 and D-Will will never become free agents. Orlando and New Jersey will deal them because that’s their only option. And the franchises that trade for the pair of stars only would accept a deal with the guarantee of an extension.
Fans, don’t buy into the Magic and Nets being stubborn or the myth that another team will be desperate enough to rent either star. Each situation just isn’t logical because they serve no big-picture benefit to anyone.
But at least Cuban will have from mid-March to the summer to devise another ingenious blueprint.
David Daniels is a Featured Columnist at Bleacher Report and a syndicated writer.
