Trade & Free Agency 2026/2027

[Mavs2021]

Sexton is a tank commander. Puts up scoring volume on bad teams. Never made the playoffs. His advanced metrics are beyond bad. Especially on defense. Is the goal to improve the team or to create a more watchable product?

I find these whole arguments so lazy. Washington was also a loser his whole career until he came to the Mavs. Sometimes elite 3rd/4th option players are just in situation, where they are asked to do too much, because they are actually the best player on a bad team. What´s Sexton supposed to do on the Bulls? Let Patrick Williams shoot the ball instead? Was he a bad player on Utah with Markkanen. No. They were basically 0.500 every year until they shamelessly started to tank after the All-Star break. Is Anfernee Simons a winner now, cause he was on the 56 wins Celtics last year, who got worse, when they traded him for Vucevic? Guys that repeatedly put up 19 PPG on 50/40/90 shooting cannot be bad players. Is Coby White a winner now, cause he went from the Bulls to the Hornets?

If we sign Sexton for the MLE, eat Poeltl´s contract to acquire RJ Barrett and pull a Herro out of our a**es for Thompson + Middleton + Martin, we got

Irving / Sexton
Herro / Barrett
Flagg / Marshall
Washington / Johnson
Lively / Poeltl

I bet you we win 45 games semi-healthy, Sexton averages 16/4 off the bench on high efficiency with bad defense, but suddenly he´s a winner.