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RE: What's Next for the Mavs

The Mavs are wanting to trade for a playoff rotation wing. That might come in the form of Crowder, but I think more likely it is a bigger deal for a player much better than Crowder. I think at some point in the next year that will happen. Unlikely before the TDL, though possible. Good chance something at the TDL if the right player becomes available. But I think most likely at this point it is a big trade for a wing next summer. 

I think all the reporting consistently point to the Mavs eyeing a two-way wing via a big trade to put with Luka.

This is the same silliness it always was.

Mavs had said "We need Brunson, a big, and a playoff-playable wing to rotate with DFS/RB" then the media guys took that and kept running with it, and you took it even farther than they did, even after everything changed. 

Mavs did get the big(s). They whiffed on Brunson, creating that massive hole to fill. Mavs started talking about how THJ was like getting a new player, and imo I think he was their plan B on the wing if they couldn't land someone they liked with the assets available (which likely included the trade value of THJ).

It began as "trade for big wing is desired" ...then "it's in the works" .... then "big wing trade coming in August or before!"....and now it's "well, what they really meant was they want one someday down the road, maybe."

Let's tell it like it is. First of all, the long term idea is not for a guy to rotate with DFS-RB but rather it's the wishful quest to land the star wing like Kawhi, Lebron, Giannis, etc, those guys who do it all. It's just a wish, a hope to find the 2nd guy at some point. Robin. Maybe they will find him, maybe not, but it's a hope more than a plan. Second of all, it's silliness to put a time line on it. They have no timeline. It's just a wish that they keep trying to fill. But it's super hard without assets, and without a FO that can do the marginal moves to fill in around 2 massive contracts (since Luka is already on the max money plan), because in order to get Robin, you lose all the worker bees to support the stars.

PERSPECTIVE: They did this for 2 decades with Dirk. We can wish. But nothing is truly in the works.