FA: THJ to DAL for 4 yrs/$74M

[KillerLeft]

I get it. We were all hoping for a shiny, new toy. The Mavs, to this point, haven't been able to get that done, and though I tend to give a first year GM working with a month of prep during a pretty bad free agency class (at least when it comes down to star power) a little slack, I think it's more than valid to call this a failure from a bird's eye view of the time from Luka's draft night until this summer, when he's signing his rookie-max-extension. 

But...

THJ has been GOOD here. Better this past year than the one before, and FAR better than he ever was in NY, or for that matter, than he was in Atlanta before he got that "terrible contract." 

I am really surprised he didn't get a raise, tbqh, and I'm pretty confident that he could have had he shopped himself more aggressively. To me, this screams that both he and the Mavs believe he's part of the core here and both are happy about it. I like this move a lot, especially when viewed independently of the rest of our disappointment over the past few seasons.