Trade & FA 2025-26: Free Agency Starts 5pm CST/6pm EST

[Smitty]

I struggle to see the alternative. I think we could simply shift our mindset and ask, what makes this team good next season? If the trade you have baked in your head is meh for those guys, then what's the solution? There is zero incentive for the Mavs to not being as good as possible next year.

To elaborate more. Several teams try, and fail, to assemble a roster with 3 players of Davis, Irving, and Flagg's caliber. If you're the GM, why would you trade Davis for pennies on the dollar before you ever see it on the floor. Why would you make your team worse when there's no incentive to do so... Having no draft pick next year. It all needs to make sense. Fear of Davis getting severely injured isn't an acceptable reason for a terrible trade imo.