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[Winter]

Thanks for this.  I don't know how anyone could possibly watch this and think their is any chance the Mav's plan to break up what they are calling their "core" of Lively, OMax, Green, Hardy and Luka.  Pretty amazing that they are a good positional fit with one another.

Kyrie makes six and I suspect they aren't married to anyone from among Maxi, Holmes, Reggie, THJ and McGee.  These are the deck chairs that need to fit around the "core plus Kyrie".  

The determination to keep the youth has occurred to me more than once - first, when the rumor that a Capela trade was nixed because of the demand on Green/Hardy. And second, the recent rumor of the Mavs looking for an Ayton trade and the Suns deciding the package wasn't good enough (I'm guessing for a similar reason - the Mavs wouldn't include at least one of those players).

That's fine with me. I think Capela may have a short shelf life, and Ayton is a bit of wild card for such a big salary. The idea of home-grown youth is more appealing in the long run.