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[KillerLeft]

Seriously, dude? With all those injuries, GW’s locker-room issues, and zero contribution from Seth/Richaun, they still weren’t on pace for the lottery. They just got healthier and deeper. Everybody’s on a good (and not short) contract. And there’s opportunity for another move this summer. Why on earth would you pick now to dispair?

I’m not despairing, and I think the team did just get better. I’ve been asking for PJ Washington for weeks and weeks.

But I think it’s extremely naïve to say that the picks will be low. Kyrie Irving will absolutely, 100% be gone and probably retired before any of those picks get made, and I think you could get pretty good odds in Vegas that Luka Dončić will be gone, too. The first one of the picks in question happens after what would be the first year of his NEXT contract. The pick swap they just made with OKC will happen after the second year of his next contract. Etc, etc.

You don’t think he’s going to arrive at free agency and wonder what the hell the Mavericks are going to do to improve the team moving forward from there with no draft capital?

I’m not trying to be a wet blanket, and in fact I want very much to enjoy the team. But my goodness, anyone who is not a fan of the team and not biased wants to talk about nothing but the consequences of this approach, and we all just seem to have our heads buried in the sand. I just think we should acknowledge that this bill is going to come due.