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

[Kidnova]

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. 

It's way more likely that this is the future than otherwise, considering AD has managed to play in more than 60 games only twice in the last 8 seasons, and one of those 2 was only 62 games.  Games played by year for AD since 2018-2019 season: 56, 62, 36, 40, 56, 56, 76, 51, 20 (this season).  Besides the outlier season of 23/24, where is the consistency expected to come from over his age 33 and 34 seasons?  

I'm not in favor of giving up an asset at this TDL to dump his contract, but if the best offer to move him this summer involves including a 2nd rounder or the 2028 pick swap, then I'd probably do that to get his salary off the books.