Trade & Free Agency 2026/2027

[Smitty]

Thank you for your reasonable take.  Everyone thinks I'm just being a dick but this is a meh move at best.  Sending out 3 picks for another backup big is something.  Maybe it will all make sense if they can trade PJ, Gafford, or both.  

I'm glad everyone (including Mavs2021) has become Mr. Sunshine all of a sudden but so far I'm not impressed.  Most people were not on board with sending out these picks for Kawhi Leonard, but for Sandi Aldama oh wow great job.

A couple of things... I like the move. I like the player. My biggest pushback was the "timeline" talk that goes on and on around here as well as the hypocrisy of most when it comes to our own players. So many have said over and over that PJW isn't a fit next to Flagg because he "can't shoot". Those same people are hyping up Aldama for his shooting and the spacing he'll provide at the 4 spot, not realizing that he's worse than PJ, or at the very least 'equal to' or 'similar to'. Then those same people talk about Gafford having an albatross contract and how the $17m he'll earn this year is a massive overpay for a starting center... yet Aldama's $17m as a backup 4 / stretch 5 is juuusstttt fine.

I think a lot of it comes down to wanting what you don't have. Not appreciating what you do have. Grass is always greener... etc., etc..

I get it. I get caught up in all of it too. I like certain guys more than others. Debating all of it is what makes this community great.

BUT the fact remains... this team is thought to be a rebuilding one by most and so far, we've seen them send out 1 of their 4 tradeable first round picks and 4 of their 5 second round picks. For the folks who were in the "get assets for vets crowd this summer" it has to be excruciating to see. Maybe, probably, we'll see more moves, and it'll make sense when it all comes together, but right now a lot of assets outgoing... and that's assuming we're not sending our last SRP in the Sasser deal...