2021-2022 MAVS NEWS: 4th in West | WCF loss [ARCHIVED]

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"Mavs don't want to pay $19M" is one of the "obstacles" to a Dragic deal we've heard mentioned.

Also
"Mavs don't want to give up Powell and WCS"
"Mavs don't want to give up Green, Brunson, Terry"
"Mavs just want to sign Dragic after he's bought out"
"Raps would not buy out Dragic, they'd rather keep him"
"Raps just want a team that will take Dragic into space"
"Raps don't want Powell's contract"
"Raps want lots of value because Dragic is valuable"

And on and on we go.

Meanwhile, Dragic is commenting on how he loves the idea of playing with Luka, and how he's not sure where he will be playing, and how he's waiting on a "third team" to be included in the MIA-TOR trade.

My observation? None of the "obstacles" are The One Big Thing to be taken at face value. They are all just negotiating items by one side or the other, a bunch of negotiating through the media, as everyone is jockeying to get an outcome more to their preference. I'm sure there's some truth in some of those items (for example, it's probably true that the Mavs wouldn't want to give up BOTH Powell and WCS, and leave the roster so thin at center) but there's a lot of BS-ery too.

I think they'll figure it out. And I'm glad to see the Mavs are not just rolling over and giving TOR whatever they happen to demand.

Thanks. Honestly been waiting for you to show up and give us an updated take.  

The bolded above is the part of this whole thing I'm enjoying the most. Way more important than whether we get Dragic, to me, is that we're going business this way now, and not just rolling over in every deal.

Do you have any guesses on what the ONE BIG THING is?