Stephen A. Smith blasts Mavericks owner over recent comments

ESPN's boisterous personality lashed out at the Mavericks.

Oct 23, 2024; Inglewood, California, USA; Stephen A. Smith (Stephen Smith) on the ESPN NBA Countdown live set at Intuit Dome. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-Imagn Images / Kirby Lee-Imagn Images

The Dallas Mavericks continue to catch strays for their ridiculous decision to trade Luka Doncic, but it doesn't help that the front office continues to talk about it. They think making bad excuses will help ease the fanbase's anger, but they're only making it worse.

A clip of Mavericks governor Patrick Dumont had been making its round recently from a real estate council talking about how trading a 25-year-old Luka Doncic, who just led them to the NBA Finals, to the Los Angeles Lakers was better for the Mavericks. Getting back a 31-year-old, oft-injured Anthony Davis as the main piece makes that statement wrong.

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Stephen A. Smith (Stephen Smith) on the ESPN NBA Countdown live set at Intuit Dome. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-Imagn Images / Kirby Lee-Imagn Images

ESPN's Stephen A. Smith called out Dumont on a recent episode of First Take, saying it doesn't make any sense.

“When you try to explain away, trading a 25-year-old global iconic basketball figure, for somebody six years older, who has a injured history albeit not the last two years, that’s pretty hard to sell. It’s not like he said this stuff to y’all the day the trade took place, this is after Anthony Davis then goes down in his very first game in Dallas, this is after Kyrie Irving tears his ACL, this is after Daniel Gafford and Dereck Lively have been out and you having lost eight of ten games. To say it then, just doesn’t make any sense.”

While Stephen A. Smith may be loud and wrong about a lot of things, he's right about this. For the Mavs to try and continuously defend their actions, and it still falls flat, should tell them to stop trying. But that would require them to make smart decisions.

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