01-14-2023, 11:22 AM
(01-14-2023, 05:54 AM)Mavs2021 Wrote: Yup. It´s amazing that to build a title contender around the best player in the league is actually not that difficult, if you just make some "normal" moves.The two best players on a 24-19 Knicks team were begging to the Mavs. Markkanen, an All-Star was begging to be a Maverick.
We could easily have this team:
Doncic 37/Dinwiddie 18/Ntilikina 2
Brunson 28/Green 3/Hardy 1
DFS 12/Bullock 10/Vet Min
Markkanen 16/Randle 24/Bertans 16
Kleber 9/Wood 16/Powell 10
$194M vs. $163M now
The roster is not even that much more expensive and everybody is locked into long-term contracts that will actually look very nice, when the cap explodes.
If you pay two first rounders to get rid of Bertans/Powell you end with roughly the same pay-roll we have now.
Anyone think you can get a Markkanen, Randle and Brunson combination level of singular talent for just two first round picks?
We had no avenue to get Markkanen.
Randle is having his second season of 4 where he is worth his contract and would not be a good fit with Luka.
Brunson was not begging to be/remain a Mav.