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[Scott41theMavs]

I assume this is tongue in cheek?  Cuban really isn't this stupid.  The most likely reason for this behavior is that they lost KP mentally last year and could not trade him for a bag of beans.  So the focus this year is to do everything they can to generate KP value (including protecting him from injury by playing another center and focusing the offense on him) in order to either trade him for something of value, or find a way that Luka/KP can work and both will be happy.  Maybe its working out that Luka is out with injury/Covid and KP can show off dominating Covid teams before the TDL.  I'm just not sure what they can get for him.  Would you do:

KP/Brunson for Poeltl/White?

I have been saying all season, KP/JB for Murray/Poeltl/Vassell. The return you put is too small for what we're sending out if we could have made a month ago. When you consider how the value of our two guys has grown over the past month, your proposal would be a grand fleece job by the Spurs. Nico has to be way the hell better than that. 

If we're 1) sending out KP and 2) talking to the Spurs, the necessary presumption for the talks to end in a trade is that they're sending out Murray. No consideration of a trade without that. All the moreso if we're sending Brunson. If KP and JB continue to trend as they are up until the trade deadline, then at that point the Spurs can send us that original package I proposed, plus their first this year. In all seriousness. 

I think it's great what Kidd is doing with KP. It has nothing whatsoever to do with KP's long-term tenure here (although the drooling incontinent moron known as Mark Cuban might see things otherwise). It has everything to do to raising his trade value to the point where something good comes back.