Trade & Free Agency 2026/2027

[KillerLeft]

Last TDL Atlanta didn't want to put Risacher on the table for AD. Five months later they are dumping him for one 2nd, a replacement level player and cap relief. Yeah I know they got Dort but this is the angle from our POV.

I'm not even high on Risacher but this is good value for us, it's a nice roll the dice type of move.
I love our offseason so far. It's so good to finally have a competent FO.

Also this is another move that nobody saw coming. No reporter has a clue about the Mavs and I love it.

I think what this move tells is not that ATL felt Risacher was untouchable in a potential AD trade, but rather that they looked at the cold, hard reality of being put in the position of either having to give AD an insane extension or worse - deny him one, and smartly shrank from that risk. This is why the Mavs did the right thing by cutting their losses and moving on from that mess at the deadline.