DRAFT: #18 [Green] & #31 [Terry] & trade for #36 [Tyler Bey]

[Kammrath]

Of course you trade for something you think is worth more than the chance you have with the pick. But a proven rotation player is worth more to me than a lottery ticket for something that only may become more.

I am responding to the notion of using the Mavs draft picks to dump contracts. That is asinine asset management to me. 

I am 100% fine using the picks to get a certain GOOD player. I am not fine using the picks to get an average player. Why? Because you almost certainly will be using the picks to get a player NOT on a rookie contract. Your picks will 100% be on rookie contracts. 

To me:

Draft pick on rookie contract w/ 47% chance to be rotation player or better >>>>> Average player on non-rookie contract

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I would say that this deal would happen even if Mavs didn't have DSJ to offer

That may be true, but it is 100% indisputable that DSJ started basically all of the games he played for NYK after the trade. They didn't trade for him wanting to bury him on the bench. They traded for him thinking he could BE something. He was seen as an asset and a possible reclamation project. He HAD value. I would argue he STILL has value and some team WILL try to reclaim him at least one more time.