01-20-2025, 09:33 PM
(01-20-2025, 05:30 PM)Mavs2021 Wrote: One game ahead of the 11th pick. Imho you don´t trade this for a Herb Jones. If this goes really wrong healthwise with Luka we get almost a 10% chance at a top 4 pick in a 6-7 player draft.
agree. even if we trade the pick and gafford right now there would still be no guarantee for us to make the playoffs with luka out until all-star break at least and other solid players out occasionally one after another. injury issues give the mavs an excuse for not going all out this season for a championship run, which we have no shot at anyway given our current levels of roster and coach. a lottery pick this year will bring us a very solid role player at the very least, considering how stacked the 25' class is supposed to be. otherwise if we indeed trade our pick and somehow miss the playoffs, we would have to watch some other team (Pelicans for example) selecting a quality young player with our pick on the draft night, in which case we would be absolutely f**ked.