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

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Urgently needed First Step toward significant change to the roster.

Too much risk in waiting until summer for better offers.

Wanted off of KP, but didn't want to have to pay to do it.  Dallas was pessimistic there was any market for KP until Toronto/Washington showed interest right before the deadline.   Toronto backed off due to health concerns.  He doesn't define the Toronto package, but it is easily surmised (me talking now, not Stein) that Dallas was paying the pick since the alternative was "luxury tax hell" by acquiring two undesirable contracts.  You don't pick luxury tax hell if the alternative is cap space AND you get a pick.

Deal worked because Washington was just as eager to dump their two guys

Dallas hopes to rehab both to what they were when they earned those deals.  If they do, each is more trade-able than KP was.

Signing DFS and hopefully signing Brunson this summer puts them in a stronger negotiating position should teams come calling wanting those players.  His mention of Brunson wasn't in the sense that it was eminent or even on the table.  More in the vein that a rebuild is needed and that was another logical path if the KP thing didn't work out.

Sad chapter for Dallas.  Swung big and missed.  Thought about bringing KP off the bench in the playoffs, but would have been too much of a detriment to value to do so on such a big stage.

Thanks for the recap.   I assume coming off the bench for the playoffs was the old regime and not the current one, right?

I don't have a problem with the Mavs moving KP.  Time will tell if they sold at the right time.   Their are a lot of guys who at one time were untradeable at one time.    Chris Paul being the gold standard.   I have no idea what type of conversations the Mavs have had.   Maybe they figured there was no way out and they had to swallow hard and hope they can rehabilitate to smaller bad contracts.