Trade & Free Agency 2026/2027

[Scott41theMavs]

Martin has unlikely bonuses which matter to a team fighting apron issues.  So, Naji instead makes sense from that standpoint.  Between the August 1st thing for Yaxel and how neatly this fits under the tax (when you add back to 15 players), this all makes some sense.

I would be pretty annoyed if the Mavs were to do a deal like this… and still had that confounded Martin on contract and roster with no easy way to get rid of him. That’s like preparing your house for a dinner party but sweeping your dead cat’s putrid corpse into the corner and wondering what stinks.

That analogy particularly fits considering that he’s one of the final reminders of Nico’s atrocities.