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(This post was last modified: 9 hours ago by KillerLeft.)
(Today, 05:12 AM)mvossman Wrote: I'm probably one of the most negative folks on this board with regards to AD (although after watching that clip it seems Stein is more negative than I am) but you can't spend an asset to dump him. I would probably even hesitate to salary dump at the TDL if it were possible.
Ok, same here.
Having said that, I feel that way because I'm not as down on the idea that the team could actually be good while AD is here as much as some seem to be. IF I thought, as I feel many do, that AD's entire time here will be a dumpster fire of nonstop injuries without any hope of putting 40 games together between them, my mind would then settle on the idea that the Mavs "would be lucky to trade him in a salary dump" (to paraphrase some sentiments I'm reading), and at the point where I believed THAT, AD basically becomes TWO MORE SEASONS of supermax dead money. I'm not there yet, by a long shot. But if I were, I don't think I'd be worried about giving up something small to salary dump him NOW, at this deadline, in order to suture the wound, stop the bleeding and avoid TWO MORE YEARS of this wheel spinning.
Again, I wouldn't do it, but if I thought like you thought (and you MIGHT be right) I'd be worried that we might end up living in a world where we wish they'd have done something like that at this deadline. I don't think it's a completely insane train of thought, depending on one's perspective.