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

[Mavs2021]

Well, there's the issue right there. It seems like for you, Trae Young is on par with or maybe even superior to AD, if I'm reading you correctly. In terms of having on the Mavs, at least. 

I am so far from agreeing with that I don't think there's much use in inching closer. I'd MUCH rather just keep AD another year than be stuck with Trae Young. I don't expect everyone to agree, but that's my starting point. It would have to be a BOATLOAD of potential high picks to get me to pull the trigger on something like that. 

But again, that's because I'm ok walking away from the table to begin with. I'm pretty confident the Mavs are headed for a lottery pick even without making a trade like this, and I'm somewhat confident a good summer's worth of moves might have this thing making more sense and ready to compete. It might end up in a situation where having AD around makes sense, even. There is NO scenario in which having Trae Young on this roster makes sense, at least for me.

Yeah, but you also probably called me a negative nancy, when I pointed out the risk associated with the Porzingis trade and everybody was having a joly good laugh at the stupid Knicks. The trade that was the launching pad for the current Knicks. 

It´s alright to be positive, but sometimes you also have to look at all angles. The reality is that AD is a lazy, injury prone soon to be 33 year old that has 30 months left on his contract. He has ONE more serious injury and you have 180M DEAD salary. DEAD for three years. Then he retires from basketball.