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

[Scott41theMavs]

Avdija, Hayes, Okongwu, and Haliburton had better be a can't miss prospect. That's a lot of assets and depth on the roster to give up. Who is Atlanta sending back? We'd also be down to DFS as our only positive tradable asset.

My whole point is that they're sending their cap room. My target with it would be Grant; pick someone else if you think that's a better idea.

Yeah, if you don't have ironclad confidence in those guys at 6, you don't make the trade. You do it if you do. I could see the Mavs doing something like that if 1) Hayes is their guy, and 2) he falls to 6 on draft day, i.e. the trade is lined-up ahead of time.

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My favorite idea right now - 18, Curry, Maxi, and Wright, w/'25, to Atlanta for the 6th pick.

That would also create around 20-25 mil of cap space in 2020. VanVleet might be available in the range. Bogdanovic. But it is a huge gamble. If you strike out with the pick, you have nothing left.

I would only want them to do it if they were not much more than a smidge less sure about the pick than they were about Luka and Dirk.

I don't like including the Devin Harris trade (the original) as a template because I think Detroit way overvalued Jamison, to the Mavs' benefit.