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

[Smitty]

Some of the Mavs fans are living in some alternate reality or they must not follow the NBA at all outside of this forum.  Like every single analyst or talking head is saying AD has no value.  Even the guys that cover the Mavs and are Mavs homers like Stein, DLLS Mavs, Locked on Mavs, etc.  Look at Trae Young or Ja Morant or Zion Williamson.  AD is in the same boat.  Mavs will be lucky to get a 1st. 

On here, it's we need the NOLA pick and this and that.  I'm such a strong negotiator I'm not settling for a crap return.  If I was the GM, things would be different.   Same person that was leading the delusion bus over the summer about the Mavs being contenders.

I think only one “on here” is still holding out for the NO pick. You say the Mavs will be lucky to get a first. I think that’s just as extreme. None of the reporting has suggested the Mavs are looking to trade Davis in a salary dump, like Trea Young, it’s actually been quite the opposite. Of course, everything we hear this time of the year shouldn’t be taken at face value, but I would be shocked if AD is traded in a salary dump move.