Patrick Dumont If you look at the greats in the league the people you and I grew up with Jordan Bird Kobe Shaq they worked really hard every day with a singular focus to win And if you dont have that it doesnt work you shouldnt be part of the Dallas Mavericks

NBA on Prime Blake Griffin and Dirk Nowitzki both agree it is time for the Mavericks to build around Cooper Flagg

Mannix The Lakers believe they can succeed with a backcourt of Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves if they can get the right type of players in the front court They are looking to build a Dallas 20 type roster similar to what Luka had when he went to the NBA Finals

Candace Parker Says Luka Doncic Is Being Overlooked For MVP For The Same Reason Kobe Bryant Once Was Dont Kobe Luka Dont get bored with greatness Luka Doncic is a beast and I feel like to some extent like we overlooked greatness because you see it for extended period of time

Royer Rick Carlisle on Luka Doncic He's the greatest player I've ever coached He'll be an MVP I coached Dirk Nowitzki we won a championship together But Luke is just he's the extra special of the most extra special just in terms of everything he can do on the basketball floor

Mavs Interim GM Matt Riccardi on the AD trade We had to take an honest look at ourselves and realize where we were and where we wanted to be Sometimes the path is not straightfoward and you gotta go a roundabout way to get where we want to go but our goal here remains the same we want to win

Chris Paul on why he would pick Shai over Luka oncic Your teammates just want to see that the stars actually try Actually try on defense I got a lot of respect for Steph Shai and all these guys who at least try on the defensive end