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

[Scott41theMavs]

This is going to end up being about semantics (as message board discussions often are).  I think it is clear there is disagreement with your perception of Market Value.  But, you are in essence saying there is no market unless Dallas agrees to a deal.  Thus, your perception of what they will accept defines market value.  That just feels circular.  

Its not like we have much else to talk about for the next 2 1/2 weeks.  I just don't want to have to have this same discussion over and over again.  So, just assume that I disagree with your certainty about where value is and adding in oversimplified words like "steal" and "worthless" to denigrate the positions others take doesn't change that for me.

Dan, not replying specifically to you, but to the discussion overall - 

1) If the Mavs current brain trust believes that the possibility realistically exists of getting what FGump is saying they regard as the minimum deal criteria for AD (or, from another POV, what they regard as AD's value in a vacuum), it doesn't speak highly to either their intelligence or team-running competence. We need a GM. Why haven't we already had one for a month or two? I know that FGump's pipe dream is Presti. Well, they had better get him, because he's the only guy on the planet right now who justifies the catastrophic malpractice of not already having a GM prior to ***this*** trade deadline. 

2) Moreover, I don't think the MCBT understands the problems that could result from not getting the best deal possible now. 

To me, a deal criteria for this deadline isn't "did the Mavs get enough assets for AD or reject an offered deal because they couldn't," but rather, "will the Mavs' future be brighter if they don't do Best AD Offer 2/5/26 or if they do pull the trigger." I have a feeling that a) if we ever found out what that best offer was, and b) have a year or two's hindsight, most of us will either be glad they took the deal or putting this group in the Zaccanelli column because they didn't. There is of course the possibility of them choosing a deal which most of us would regard as inferior to another that they turned down. They need a GM. Period.