The long-suffering basketball public in Denver, or what's left of it, probably doesn't see this yet.

Folks in Dallas are too giddy to care.

It's nonetheless our duty to throw out one more tidbit in the wake of the Mavericks' annual blockbuster.

The Nuggets did OK, too.

Just as Mark Cuban and Don Nelson didn't trade their way to a sure championship, Kiki Vandeweghe didn't just ruin his franchise. It was already ruined when Denver re-imported Vandeweghe from Dallas last summer. That was a good deal for the Nuggets and so was Thursday's.