2019-2020 Mavs Trade Discussion + Salary Chart

[SleepingHero]

Second thought...  if a current trade proposal with SAC were on the table: HB for Curry/Wright/JJax, who says no?

I say no. I'd snip the telephone lines faster than Donnie could dial 214. I really enjoyed HB his first year here, thinking he could only improve after being given newfound freedom leaving GSW. What we got was a pretty one-dimensional scorer that brought flashbacks of twilight days iso-Melo with less scoring talent. But despite that Barnes showed he could theoretically be the perfect 3rd/4th option in any offense, but because of desire to be the man, never accepted that role (after GSW). 

Getting past the issues of Barnes being traded because supposedly he didn't get along with Luka, mostly because a rookie came in and stole his thunder, AND his god awful overpriced contract, Barnes doesn't really work here. We tried the Barnes Luka experiment and we know the results. Plus my main gripe with Barnes is that SAC hasn't gotten any better since they traded for him, in fact they've gotten much worse.

The Kings went 11-17 to close out the season after trading Barnes, this was after starting 28-26 that same season. We all know how the Kings have massively underperformed to start this season as well (though they have bounced back since Fox went down) and they're current record is 7-10. So since trading for Barnes, the Kings are 18-27, and they only gave up a drug lord and Justin Jackson who was barely in the rotation, so it's not like the Kings lost massive amount of talent to get him. 

Now I'm not saying that Barnes is the sole reason for the Kings lack of success. Injuries, the odd decision to fire their coach, and weird roster construction all definitely play a role. But there is a clear definite trend that since Barnes joined the Kings they've been bad, despite his personal above average success.

I wish Barnes well, as he was a great professional while he was here, but I personally never really want to see him in a Mavs jersey again solely because I think there will always be a player that fills the role we want him to play better than he could.