that quote wasn’t lost in translation…he could easily have been saying (trying to say) there’s “no rumor” or something along those lines and either messed up the english or if the interview was in Portuguese is could have been mis-translated. I wouldn’t read too much into it.

That said, I have been in favor of moving LB for quite some time. There’s far too many options out there to consider them all. He may be the new Marion in that his name is likely to come up often in a lot of rumors.

Btw – there’s no way Dallas moves JHo here for LB or Diaw. It would have to be for LB AND Diaw. I still might consider that but OTOH I don’t see why the Mavs would move their #1a player for a couple of bench guys unless Cuban is high….oh yeah…

Josh Howard for Barbosa? I’m not sure how likely it is, but it also mentions Diaw for Howard.

Phx Stan is right… “unless Cuban is high….oh yeah…” NIIIIICE!

Contracts dont even match up, so EVEN if we did do a Howard for Barbosa and Diaw, Dallas would have to give up more, like a stackhouse (the on-again, off-again phx killer) just to balance out the contracts. This would make you guys EVEN older, heavy at the 2/3 posistion (hill, stack, howard, strawberry, bell), lose a good three point shooter in barbosa, and Dallas would be getting back essentially no defense (which we have needed for YEARS) and yet another player who is confused on whether he should be a pg or a sg. (Terry and Barbosa)

the translation was truthful but I never trust journalists.
The way he said “it’sd not a rumor” souds very weird.

This doesn’t make sense to me as they just traded for Devin Harris who is a similar player to Barbosa. Who else would they be looking to offer for him