TDL Archived: The 2nd Rnd Pick Yankee Swap

[hakeemfaan]

One thing I know for sure is we can't afford to lose Josh Green. Every team still needs some young blood. Watching this team sometimes I feel like we just need to find slightly better players than Powell, Bullock and THJ. These aren't the type of players you want to go to war with.

The thing is the Lakers or any other team getting a Kyrie knows this and will make it clear.   The Mavs OTOH are led by an owner who doesn’t believe in that and that message is filtered down. We were taking on bad contracts and players that the Wizards wanted desperately to get rid of. Yet we threw in a 2nd round pick. Meanwhile the Lakers get Hachimura easily and can evaluate if he fits into their long term plans. At that time I thought he might have been untouchable. Now I know it was just the Mavs FO not being firm enough to not blink first.  Or maybe they didn’t even ask if he was available.  Can’t put anything past these guys. 


The pieces in the FO keep changing. Their negotiation skills do not. There is only one common thread in all of this.