Yesterday, 08:20 AM
(Yesterday, 07:37 AM)Dirknows Wrote: How do you see a line coming back this season? He won’t even be healthy by the TDL if he doesn’t need surgery and if he does he’s out all year.
Unless it's an ongoing or career-threatening injury (and there's no indication it's anything like that), he's still AD. You just have to deal with the hassle that you won't get him on the floor right away. Have to wait a month or 2 or so before you open the package under the tree.
Teams will weigh that, and what it means to them. Each team will see it their own way. They will play with the what-if's, and their own timelines.
All in all, I am certain it's going to be way more fluid than we think. I was not predicting and don't know exactly when. I don't know how many teams. I don't know what offers will look like. I just know the interest in him didn't evaporate, and it will inevitably heat back up again at some point. It may have not gone away, even, and only waiting for a better definition of his timeline for recovery.
We look at this through our own lens, but we have our preset biases that impact how we view such things. Consider: if Giannis was seriously in play, and we thought we could get him, but he had this injury happen, would we want the Mavs to walk away? Or would we want them to go ahead and work the deal, subject to doing some due diligence on the injury? That's easy, right? I think for teams who are truly wanting AD (and there are far more than we are hearing about), it's similar.
All that's true of DAL as well. This setback may have made them no more anxious to trade him than they were before.
Most DAL fans, of course, threw up their hands and said, "Trade the bum, get him out of here. Just find a taker, and get him gone. I'm done here." I get it. But for the NBA this is only a bump in the road, a road that keeps going.
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