The entire Dallas “Mavericks” front office, including owner Mark Cuban, flew to Ljubljana, Slovenia to present their superstar, Luka Dončić, with a five-year $41.4M/per contract. Which sounds like a lot of money, and is, but is less than the $46M/year four-year K .530 just signed J-Buts to and J-Buts is turning 32 next month and Luka is 22, or as Woj says, “ Dončić [is] one of the most accomplished players in NBA history at 22 years old…” Think of that. You’re 22 years old and already “one of the most accomplished players” in the history of the Association. That is fucking mind-blowing.

Luka’s contract is the tippy-top maxi-max Dallas could give him off a rookie (motherfucker was a ROOK :o) contract under the CBA. When this five-year deal ends and is next one is negotiated…There won’t be no negotiations just as there weren’t with this one, Mark and the brass will just ask what number Luka’s like them to write on the check. Luka will no longer be living on the second floor, he’ll be living in the penthouse…Twenty-two and already one of the most accomplished players in league history. God DAMN.

Young, rich, supernova Mr. Dončić is worth every € he gets, he’s worth far more than the “Mavs” are able to pay. Major clap out to Mark and Dallas, too. They are trailblazers in finding perfecrly cut diamonds abroad. They found Dirk Nowitzki, and, my God, they found “one of the most accomplished players in NBA history,” and he’s only 22.

Looks like Big D gonna be collecting some of them gold baubles with a ball perched atop a cylinder for as far as we mere mortals can see into the foreseeable.

All deserved for a great organization and, before all’s said and done, maybe the best player who ever threw a ball into a peach basket.