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

[Chicagojk]

Lot of wishful thinking RE: Dragic.  If the positions were flipped, no way would we want to trade him for Powell and other garbage: negative value player(s) with two years remaining on their contract.

Worst case you hold on to Dragic until the deadline and get a couple of 2nd round picks.

I haven't really seen a reasonable argument for why TOR would do that trade other than Dragic would prefer to be in Dallas.  Toronto would be in a worse position after the trade than they are right now.

Hopefully Duffy comes through and works out a middle ground where we send a future 2nd and/or Terry instead of a future 1st or Josh Green.

edit:  If I'm Toronto, I'd rather release/buy out Dragic for nothing rather than take back Powell.  Masai doesn't seem like the guy to release an asset for nothing unless he really wants to owe Duffy a favor.

Yeah, I never bought the buy Goran out right now for Toronto.   Why not hold onto him for now and maybe if nothing happens you buy him out near the trade deadline.  Maybe he thrives in Toronto and looks really good.  A buyout just never seemed like a Toronto thing.

I will say I can see Toronto looking at bigger moves.  There has been some internet rumor that they may sniff around and buy low on Bagley.   Maybe there is a deal like that where Goran is salary filler with asset and the third team buys out Goran.   Although I don't expect Toronto to buyout Goran themselves right now.