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[SleepingHero]

How long will Mark give Nico to do something with his franchise

I think Mark, as it's always been, is the one that does stuff with the franchise. And everyone else are basically advisors to him. 

That doesn't mean Mark is the one making trade calls, but nothing gets approved/done without Mark signing off. 

So with that in mind, I think Kidd gets at minimum 2-3 years before any change is made. Cubes doesn't like to make drastic coaching changes. 

When it comes to trades, I sure hope Mark/Nico has something cooking by January. The team has needed a fresh face for quite some time. I have no clue why Cuban suddenly now loves random role players. We saw under Dirk that Cuban made trade after trade to find some new guys if it wasn't working out. For whatever reason Cuban is in love with a load of 7-8th guys and doesn't want to move them. 

In terms of who I'd like to see the Mavs target, there are different tiers of guys. I have them sorted as  " Tier 1: Wil; give away picks for them/core guys, Tier 2: Lateral move, one dimensional, Tier 3: End of bench/minor assets guys" 

Tier 1:
Jerami Grant 
Brandon Ingram
De'Aaron Fox (Is he even available?)
Myles Turner/Sabonis (Hard to imagine the Pacers doing any deals with us given RC)
Deandre Ayton (Biggest splash move. Doubt the Suns rock the boat in the midst of a 17 win streak)
CJ McCollum (Maybe Portland is enticed by THJ and a load of role players...?)
Joe Ingles (If Utah is dumb enough to trade this dude I'd love the Mavs to go after him)
Dejounte Murray

Tier 2:
Ricky Rubio
Buddy Hield 
Daniel Theis
Valanciunas (don't think he's eligible to be traded this year sadly due to his extension)
Steven Adams
Montrezl Harrell 
Dragic (though I think he'll be bought out before we make a trade)
Marcus Smart
Tyus Jones (Sneaky good 2nd/3rd guard instant offense guy)
Eric Gordon (Hard to make the salaries work, but maybe there's a 3-team trade available here with NYK involving Wall...)


Tier 3: 
Derrick Favors with TPE
Serge Ibaka with TPE (No shot Clips do it, but would just mention it anyways)
Josh Hart
Thad Young 

Plenty of guys here that all would make a significant difference. Only 100% sure fire keepers to me are Luka/KP/DFS/Kleber.