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Author Message   Saarang Pilla Bewarse Username: Saarang Post Number: 630 Registered: 04-2015 Posted From: 97.126.40.189 Rating: N/A Votes: 0 Posted on Sunday, July 09, 2017 - 11:49 pm:    Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban cited the dominance of the Golden State Warriors and depth of the Western Conference as reasons for the direction of his franchise. "We're rebuilding. Right?" Cuban said during the ESPN broadcast of the Mavs' 88-77 win Sunday over the Phoenix Suns in the Las Vegas Summer League. "There's no question about it. If we were in the East, we would not be rebuilding. We'd be handling things completely different. I think I'm going to kidnap [commissioner] Adam Silver and not let him out until he moves us to the Eastern Conference. "Given where we are, given where the Warriors are and what's happening in the Western Conference, it kind of sealed what we have to do." Dallas is coming off a 33-49 season, the franchise's first losing campaign since 1999-2000, when Cuban purchased the team midseason. The Mavs missed the playoffs for only the second time in the past 17 seasons and used its lottery pick to select point guard Dennis Smith Jr., whom coach Rick Carlisle immediately projected to be the starter next season.