07-13-2021, 11:39 AM
(07-13-2021, 11:37 AM)SleepingHero Wrote: I understand but the mindset that the Mavs have any sort of agency at all in this situation is a faulty one.
They DO have agency. The agency to offer JC a max contract OR the agency to make ATL a trade offer "they can't refuse." The Mavs have agency to be aggressive in pursuit...they don't have CONTROL over what ATL chooses to do, but they do have agency to pursue aggressively.