Cuban spoke afterward about how he would have traded for the 20-year-old Latvian, who's taken the NBA by storm this season, if it were feasible, per CBSSports.com's Ken Berger: "It's funny because everywhere I went [after the draft] and dealt with New York basketball fans, they were like, 'Oh, man.' And I was like, 'No, you don't understand.' We would've traded up in a heartbeat to get that kid. We loved him."
The Knicks drafted Porzingis No. 4 overall, which was a bit out of Dallas' range with the 21st selection, where it chose Virginia product Justin Anderson.
Per Berger, Nowitzki was complimentary of Porzingis, saying, "When I was 20, I was scared to death out there and had a brutal first year. He's averaging almost a double-double. He's way better than I was at 20, so the comparison's probably unfair to him."
Had Cuban's fantasy materialized, the Mavs may have had to trade Nowitzki to move up that far in the draft. Odds are a rebuilding New York squad wouldn't have even taken the 37-year-old at this stage of his career.
It would have been fascinating to see a mega-talent like Porzingis paired with an outspoken owner in Cuban to carry the Mavs into the eventual post-Nowitzki era.
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dali bi trejdao legendu kluba, jest da je star ali je legenda.[uredio madmax17 - 09. prosinca 2015. u 18:13]