Trade & Free Agency 2026/2027

[Smitty]

Murray/Sasser/Nembhard
Irving/Christie/Sergio
Flagg/Naji/Biber 
PJ/Aldama/Klay
Lively/Morez/Cisse

I kind of like this.  What do the extensions for Christie and Naji look like if both are coming off the bench?  A little thin at Center if we don’t have Lively back.

What is being traded (outgoing) here? Murray is the type of player the Mavs are missing, in theory, but at this point he's probably a shell of himself and definitely a negative value contract, no? He's getting $30m+ the next 2 years, a trade bonus, some other incentives. All while playing, 14 games last year and 31 the season before. Shooting 30% from 3 on 5 attempts per game. ROUGH! The positive is he'd be ~20 months removed from the achilles injury, which is more than enough time to get back to 'yourself' on the court...

Mathurin for half the cost is more desirable to me. Jrue Holiday as well. I'd have to do a lot of mental gymnastics to get excited about Murray, especially if they send anything of actual value. I bet if he were a Maverick instead of a Pelican the last two years, this board would be talking about having to attach assets to get off his contract…