Mavs not to hang WCF banner on opening night against Spurs

[phyzik]

Just heard on the news.... just paraphrasing, Marc Cuban is scared of the Spurs showing their wrath on his team. :smokin

Im sure someone will find the exact quote somewhere, looking now.

[FromWayDowntown]

I'd think he'd want to do it, just so the Spurs could be distracted by laughter at such a celebration.

[SequSpur]

wgaf

[FromWayDowntown]

wgaf

There's that, too.

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

I tend to agree with Sequ here, but that's a weak move by the Mavericks if it's true.

[phyzik]

hey, I just heard it on the news, thought it was funny and its obviously related to the Spurs... dont hate the messanger.

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

Briefly ...

The official unveiling of the Western Conference championship banner at American Airlines Center will be at the Nov. 6 game against Golden State. Fitting that new Warriors coach Don Nelson, who helped build the Mavericks' powerhouse, will be in the building. ... Day 1 of training camp was typical in at least one respect, Johnson said. "Our rookies are running around, and they don't know what's going on right now," he said. "That's typical. We were kind of refreshing everybody's memories and getting our new guys acclimated. We threw the ball all over the gym, but that's part of it."


http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/basketball/mavs/stories/100406dnspomavsday.326a093.html

[T Park]

Why wouldn't they have unveiled it at the NBA Finals?

[spurschick]

Pussies

[baseline bum]

God, I wish they would do it. Nothing like seeing the Spurs go kill a team on banner night, like they did to the Lakers in 2003. Then again, the Lakers had a banner that actually meant something.

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

Pussies

For those of you who haven't been to a GTG, you should hear her say that in person.

[ShoogarBear]

Why wouldn't they have unveiled it at the NBA Finals?:lmao :lmao :lmao :lmao :lmao

[ShoogarBear]

For those of you who haven't been to a GTG, you should hear her say that in person.Or you could just post your mp3 file.

[Mr.Bottomtooth]

Pussies
:lol

[boutons_]

"spurschick" and "pussies" is a very pleasant association :lol

[SenorSpur]

Why hang the damn banner in the first place? Ooops I forgot. It's all they have to show for their 2006 championship run.

This is typical for a franchise so desparate for recognition that they hung a banner to commemorate A.C. Green's record for consecutive games played during his brief tenure with the Mavs.

Strange, but that's the God's honest truth.

[FromWayDowntown]

Why hang the damn banner in the first place? Ooops I forgot. It's all they have to show for their 2006 championship run.

This is typical for a franchise so desparate for recognition that they hung a banner to commemorate A.C. Green's record for consecutive games played during his brief tenure with the Mavs.

Strange, but that's the God's honest truth.

Well, to be fair, the Spurs have three similar banners hanging in the rafters of the AT&T Center. I wouldn't be too fast to criticize the Mavericks for wanting to hang a banner to commemorate a Western Conference championship.

The timing of the celebration is curious -- I wonder what they would have done if Nellie hadn't happened to be coming in so early in the season? I don't know too many franchises that would delay doing something like that -- in fact, most probably would have hung the conference title banner before the Finals started.

Knowing Cuban, that couldn't happen because the banner the Mavericks will hang will be about the size of a football field.

[iceman44]

Let them do it, so the Spurs can spoil their party!

[mavs>spurs2]

Let them do it, so the Spurs can spoil their party!

Or not.

[Mr.Bottomtooth]

"spurschick" and "pussies" is a very pleasant association :lol
:lmao

[LilMissSPURfect]

I'd think he'd want to do it, just so the Spurs could be distracted by laughter at such a celebration.


:lmao :lmao

[phyzik]

I swear there is a quote from Mark Cuban going along the lines that he didnt want to piss off the spurs anymore then they already are. I hope KENS or WOAI or whatever news station I was watching on TV posts it on the web.... it was a direct quote... I just cant remember exactly what he said.

[LilMissSPURfect]

don't mean a thing without the rings............ :fro :fro

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

lets see here, eagles world titles: 0
cowboys world titles: 5


typical spurs math huh?

wait, thats even more titles than your spurs, lol. try again brilliant.

Hey, um, "Brilliant"...

http://spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=51151

Read that, then read below.





























Leave it to a Dallas Maverick fan to ejaculate prematurely.

So, right now, I would just like you to sit here and take your lumps, Brilliant, but I doubt you actually will....and then, spurschick's comment above will be ever so correct.

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

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Don't worry, we'll wait.

[Zunni]

"The plaque for the alternates is downstairs in the Ladies room."

[Gin N Juice]

Pussies

Niiiiice one spurschick :lol

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

Speaking of pussies, where's that sandy vagina mavs4ever?

"He's got some 'splainin to do."

[Condemned 2 HelLA]

More like mavs4getit.

[ShoogarBear]

Ya think Cuban might at least hand out the Western Conference Championship rings on Opening Night. Cheeze.

[mabber]

Waiting until GState game is just a tribute to Nellie since he put the team together for the most part. I'm sure they'd show it opening night if GState hadn't been on schedule so early in season.

Not like it matters to y'all. They'd get ripped for doing it opening night against the Spurs and they're getting ripped for not doing it then.-lol

[angel_luv]

I didn't know that teams unveiled WCF banners. Is that common?

[ShoogarBear]

Spoken like a true Spurs Fan.

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

Waiting until GState game is just a tribute to Nellie since he put the team together for the most part. I'm sure they'd show it opening night if GState hadn't been on schedule so early in season.

Not like it matters to y'all. They'd get ripped for doing it opening night against the Spurs and they're getting ripped for not doing it then.-lol

I think the whole point of this thread is ripping them because they're not doing it against the Spurs/opening night.

Why not rub the WCF in your rivals' face one last time before the start of the 2006-07 season?

[FromWayDowntown]

I didn't know that teams unveiled WCF banners. Is that common?

IIRC, on each occasion that it's happened, the Spurs have had their Western Conference Champion banners hung before the Finals have started. They shine a spotlight on the banner at Game 1 (since the Spurs have always opened the Finals at home) right before the player introductions. No fanfare, no pomp or circumstance, and certainly no major unveiling -- just an acknowledgment.

I have no idea why the Mavericks didn't do that, or why they thought it was worthwhile to wait for the beginning of this season. It strikes me as ridiculous to celebrate it with any sort of special ceremony (other than the Finals) and more ridiculous still to hold off until sometime into the next season. But, that's par for the course for Cuban.

It is what it is.

[mabber]

[QUOTE=Johnny_Blaze_47]I think the whole point of this thread is ripping them because they're not doing it against the Spurs/opening night.

Why not rub the WCF in your rivals' face one last time before the start of the 2006-07 season?[QUOTE]

Maybe because they've moved on from worrying about the Spurs so much and are just concentrating on their own game since they now know they can beat the Spurs. Once you beat the team that you could never beat, you move past all that. It's that way in any sport. I'm not saying that the Spurs can't come back and beat Dallas this season but the days of the Spurs being in the heads of the Mavs are over. Now it's just about talent & execution.

[angel_luv]

Thanks for the explanation FWD. :)

[Mixability]

I have no idea why the Mavericks didn't do that, or why they thought it was worthwhile to wait for the beginning of this season. It is what it is.

Probably because they thought that once they knocked off the champs the rest of the playoffs would be a cakewalk. They probably already had the NBA Championship banner on preorder, just like the Lakers in 04. :lol



Maybe because they've moved on from worrying about the Spurs so much and are just concentrating on their own game since they now know they can beat the Spurs. Once you beat the team that you could never beat, you move past all that. It's that way in any sport. I'm not saying that the Spurs can't come back and beat Dallas this season but the days of the Spurs being in the heads of the Mavs are over. Now it's just about talent & execution.

The Spurs will always be in their heads, because they still have NOTHING to show for their Game 7 heroics against our guys. All that fight and no reward. It's like if they were a kid and they're FINALLY gonna beat their big brother on a videogame, but then Mom comes along and unplugs the NES. :lol

[phyzik]

Maybe because they've moved on from worrying about the Spurs so much and are just concentrating on their own game since they now know they can beat the Spurs. Once you beat the team that you could never beat, you move past all that. It's that way in any sport. I'm not saying that the Spurs can't come back and beat Dallas this season but the days of the Spurs being in the heads of the Mavs are over. Now it's just about talent & execution.


and I quote....

That's why Johnson has hit the Mavs with a series of short-term goals to focus on before they even get to the playoffs. Getting off to a good start is priority No. 1. Winning the Southwest Division is No. 2. Securing the No. 1 seed and home-court advantage throughout the West playoffs -- which they've never managed in franchise history, even last spring when Dallas finally toppled San Antonio in the playoffs -- is an ambitious No. 3 that likely would come with the Southwest title.

Seems Spurs still come first before a title.... even though that would be obvious since the Mavs will most likely have to go through us anyway.

[Condemned 2 HelLA]

The Spurs will always be in their heads, because they still have NOTHING to show for their Game 7 heroics against our guys. All that fight and no reward. It's like if they were a kid and they're FINALLY gonna beat their big brother on a videogame, but then Mom comes along and unplugs the NES. :lol

Reminds me of that episode of "The Simpsons" where Homer is just about to kick Bart's ass on that boxing video game, then Marge strolls up and pulls the plug on them, and Bart announces his "retirement" from video boxing!
:lmao

[phyzik]

and I quote....

That's why Johnson has hit the Mavs with a series of short-term goals to focus on before they even get to the playoffs. Getting off to a good start is priority No. 1. Winning the Southwest Division is No. 2. Securing the No. 1 seed and home-court advantage throughout the West playoffs -- which they've never managed in franchise history, even last spring when Dallas finally toppled San Antonio in the playoffs -- is an ambitious No. 3 that likely would come with the Southwest title.

Seems Spurs still come first before a title.... even though that would be obvious since the Mavs will most likely have to go through us anyway.


OK.... I have no idea where I was going with that post, Im sure there was something but it just doesnt look right..... just ignore me :oops

[Taco]

Pussies
:lol

[LakerHater]

Pussies http://spurstalk.com/forums/images/smilies/lmao.gif http://spurstalk.com/forums/images/smilies/smilol.gif http://spurstalk.com/forums/images/smilies/smirollin.gif http://spurstalk.com/forums/images/smilies/lmao.gif

[LEONARD]

They don't want to hurt the Spares players' feelings obviously... :fro

[SenorSpur]

The Mavs wouldn't dare celebrate this accomplishment during the home opener against the Spurs because they know they would get clowned by the Spurs.

It's OK to "rub it in the noses" of Don Nelson and the Warriors. They haven't won shit in recent years.

[dirk4mvp]

Anybody. Sig bet on who wins the opener?

[ponky]

The Mavs wouldn't dare celebrate this accomplishment during the home opener against the Spurs because they know they would get clowned by the Spurs.

It's OK to "rub it in the noses" of Don Nelson and the Warriors. They haven't won shit in recent years.

Uh yeah, that's it. The Warriors beat us more times than the purrs did last season, I don't think we're scared about getting clowned by the purrs...especially, when Duncan made that silly quote about "We'll see who's glaring at the end" and didn't do squat to back it up. Scary stuff...Witches and goblins and spurs...OH MY!!!

Actually, I take that back....Duncan played extremely well, it was the rest of his team that sucked.

[SenorSpur]

Frankly, it's kind of pretentious to make a big deal out of 2nd place. But then, we are talking about the attention-starved Mavs and their jack-ass owner Mark "the refs are out to get us" Cuban.

[FromWayDowntown]

Maybe the Mavs will hang Leonard on opening night and then hang their banner when Nellie comes back to Dallas.

[boutons_]

"pretentious to make a big deal out of 2nd place"

Welll, isni't the first time the Mavs have ever won anything?

[SenorSpur]

"pretentious to make a big deal out of 2nd place"

Welll, isni't the first time the Mavs have ever won anything?

Maybe, but no one ever remembers who came in second.

[LEONARD]

Maybe the Mavs will hang Leonard on opening night and then hang their banner when Nellie comes back to Dallas.

That wouldn't be a bad seat to see the opening night whippin' of the Spurs from... :fro

[Jimcs50]

I remember the fanfare when the Spurs used to hang their division banners.

:lol

[ShoogarBear]

shhhhhhhhhhhhh! You're killin our roll! :madrun

[FromWayDowntown]

I remember te fanfare when the Spurs used to hang their division banners.

:lol

Me, too. But even that never seemed to wait for the following season's opening night. That's the part that I think is so interesting.

I'm guessing that it took the sign-making outfit a while to get Cuban's likeness just right on the banner.

[George Gervin's Afro]

Should we have a thread that honors the WCF banner being raised? :lol :lol

that would bring the number of banners to 2 in the AAC ! And of course Leonard will be crying at the sight..

[George Gervin's Afro]

Maybe, but no one ever remembers who came in second.


Your wrong the Mavs celebrate placing 2nd.. :lol

[Jimcs50]

Wish we had the WC championship last year.

:depressed


Damnit Manu.

[spurs_fan_in_exile]

It's going to be a star studded affair from what I hear. On the guest list for the banner raising: Karl Malone, Martin Scorsese, and Al Gore.

[spurschick]

:cat

[Jimcs50]

It's going to be a star studded affair from what I hear. On the guest list for the banner raising: Karl Malone, Martin Scorsese, and Al Gore.


:spin



don't forget the 1st runner ups from the last 10 Miss America pagents(starting right after Vanessa Williams' pagent)

[ShoogarBear]

It's going to be a star studded affair from what I hear. On the guest list for the banner raising: Karl Malone, Martin Scorsese, and Al Gore.

Along with a filmed retrospective of Alydar.

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

http://www.grudge-match.com/Images/kelly.jpg

[Dave McNulla]

Well, to be fair, the Spurs have three similar banners hanging in the rafters of the AT&T Center. I wouldn't be too fast to criticize the Mavericks for wanting to hang a banner to commemorate a Western Conference championship.
spurs never had a conf championship banner hanging party. all three conference championships led to nba championships.

[FromWayDowntown]

spurs never had a conf championship banner hanging party. all three conference championships led to nba championships.

You're right. Those banners were all "unveiled" at the beginning of the subsequent Finals and without any great fanfare.

Again, I don't know of any team that has hung a conference championship banner that ever waited for the next season to unveil its conference championship banner. Before this thread started, I had assumed the Mavericks would have followed suit and hung the banner before Game 1 of the 2006 Finals, presuming that they'd have a much more significant banner to raise at the beginning of this season. Obviously, that assumption was wrong.

spurschick is spot on here.

[ducks]

we are talking of cuban
nothing makes sence with cuban
letting nash walk and spending major jack on everyone else

[ShoogarBear]

Actually, I'm shocked there's not a Western Conference Championship parade preceding the unveiling of the banner.

[spurschick]

Actually, I'm shocked there's not a Western Conference Championship parade preceding the unveiling of the banner.


http://www.mailcom.com/gayromantic/parade/Parade-03.jpg

[Condemned 2 HelLA]

Actually, I'm shocked there's not a Western Conference Championship parade preceding the unveiling of the banner.

Would there be a huge Thanksgiving Day Parade sized Mark Cuban baloon floating overhead during the procession?

[cheguevara]

don't you think Cuban's head is big enough already?

[angel_luv]

don't you think Cuban's head is big enough already?


True, but what better use for all that hot air than a parade with lots of floats? :lol

[ShoogarBear]

For some reason, the thought of a parade in Dallas with a big-headed Cuban float make me want to look for a good book depository.

[nkdlunch]

when are mavs gonna hang their banner for Owner with the Biggest Vagina?