newyorknewyork wrote:

GustavBahler wrote:Cuban is now saying he would have drafted Frank if available. IDk, maybe he would have. Maybe this is so Frank doesn't have the incentive to have a breakout game against DSJ.

He did say that with the pretense on if the Knicks selected Smith.

The notion that Cuban used interest in Frank to trick the Knicks into drafting him has been one of the dumbest narratives I have heard over the years. Mavs did try to sell that after the draft somewhat. But BS should have been called by credible reporters rather then feeding into it. Knicks picked before Dallas. Why would the Knicks care what Dallas was thinking? Now if we picked after Dallas and traded up in front of them to select a player due to being scared they would take him. Then I could see it.

With players like Barea, Ferrell, Curry. It would makes sense for them to have interest in Frank to compliment all their undersized guards. Dallas has always been very open to international players.