12-12-2025, 01:17 PM
(12-12-2025, 12:53 PM)Smitty Wrote: 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.
What you're saying is that AD is not in the Mavs future, but I want to wait until the optimum time and see if I can get more for him (even though he's getting older with particular health issues). We know we want to trade him, we're just debating on when (or the quality of the trade).
I realize it's probably not a popular opinion, but I think the "optimum time" is largely fool's gold. It's not like AD is getting younger and healthier. I get that the market for AD may be bad. So bad that we don't trade now. But I think we may need to lower our expectations about what to expect.