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[Mavs2021]

Went through all the updated rosters. Short thoughts and one trade/move per team, the Mavs could be interested in.

Hawks

Garuba is a very similar player to Capela. Preemptive move? I can see them trying to move on from Bogdanovic quickly, before his injury-proneness turns him into another Collins. I don´t think they will actively shop Murray or Hunter.

Suggested trade: THJ for Bogdanovic

Celtics 

I think their roster is set. I don´t believe them, when they say, they will match offers up to the full MLE for Grant Williams. They are already at 175M guaranteed. I think they´d prefer to S&T him to a capspace team for a trade exception, and this is just posturing to gain a 2nd round pick.

Suggested trade: Offer the full MLE to Grant Williams

Nets

Roster seems pretty much set. An argument could be made for a back-up veteran PF/C, whose contract lines up with the expiration of the Simmons deal in two years. The Nets also have two large trade exception and are $20M under the tax.

Suggested trade: McGee + 2nd round pick for a TPE. Nets would probably insist on two.

Hornets

One of the more interesting teams left on the market currently. $30M in capspace without the capholds of Washington, Bridges, Oubre.

I do three trades here:

Wishful thinking trade: THJ + 2027 unprotected 1st for PJ Washington
Preferable (can´t do) trade: Offer Bridges the full MLE.
Suggested trade: Cody Martin (16/2 guaranteed) + Mykhailiuk (15/3) + two future 2nd round picks for Bullock

Bulls

Their owner historically does not want to pay the tax. They are roughly the full MLE under the tax, so they are either trying to cover for a full MLE offer for Dosunmu or actually looking to actively strengthen their frontcourt. They only have one PF under contract in Patrick Williams.

Suggested trade: Chicago signs Christian Wood for the remaining 6M in their MLE. No Mavs returns here.

Cavs

I got nothing. Their roster seems pretty much complete. Unless you want to make a real lopsided win now offer to them, I don´t see any viable options for either side.

Suggested trade: N/A. Raul Neto for the veteran minimum would have been my suggestion before the Exum news.

Nuggets

Nuggets main rotation seems pretty much set, but they could add some scoring in their frontcourt. Luka´s Slovenia teammate Cancar seems to have fallen out of favour. Cancar is a useful bench PF and his salary is so low that it´s actually an acceptable return for Wood that doesn´t mess with our own cap too much.

Suggested trade: Cancar + TPE for Wood

Detroit

Roster moves seem pretty much complete, with the exception of signing their rookies. The limitation with our picks makes trade suggestions really difficult, so a trade that the Mavs might do, but I would not.

Suggested trade: Bogdanovic + Stewart + 2027 unprotected first for THJ + McGee.

Golden State

The Warriors would likely be interested in Kleber for their last hurrah, but at the same time this would hurt our depth. A trade that comes down to the strategic approach by the Mavs.

Suggested trade: Kuminga for Kleber + Mavs 2nd round pick + Warriors receive 2027 1st round pick swap rights.

Rockets

I have absolutely no inside information how badly the Rockets want to win now and how they view Sengun, but I assume the price is very high. I projected Sengun as a top 5 pick and my opinion has not changed. I think he has SERIOUS potential.

Suggested trade: KPJ (non guaranteed after this season) + Sengun + three 2024 2nd round picks (from OKC + GS + Brooklyn) for THJ + McGee + Mavs 2027 1st round pick unprotected.

Add-On: Sign Jason Terry from the Nuggets G-League affiliate as an assistant coach and personal mentor to KPJ due to his close personal ties.

Pacers

With the acquisitions of Walker/Toppin at PF there is absolutely no space anymore for Jalen Smith. Finally an easy suggestion.

Suggested trade: Jalen Smith for McGee + 2nd round pick or Jalen Smith for TPE.

Clippers

Westbrook 15/8/8 shooting 41/36/88 in the play-offs. 3.8M sounds like a good price for his veteran leadership given that we pay McGee 6M to mentor Luka. 
Back on topic. Covington has been awful for them and the Martin acquisition suggests his time in LA has come to an end. They don´t have a back-up C at the moment.

Suggested trade: Covington + Plumlee for Wood + McGee.

Lakers

Absolutely nothing in it for the Mavs. The Lakers appear done.

Suggested trade:  N/A

Grizzlies

Grizzlies roster also seems pretty much set. Not a huge fan of Xavier Tillman and I assume he will be the last returning piece. Anyway since I got nothing better.

Suggested trade: Tillman 10/3 into the rest of the Holmes TPE.


Heat

Seems obvious the Lillard trade will happen eventually. I will cheat a little and do this here.

Suggested trade: Offer Lowry the rest of the MLE after he has been traded and waived by Portland.

Bucks

 I sense an Israeli summer vacation bromance partner for Kyrie.

Suggested trade: S&T Meyers Leonard for McGee.

Wolves

So I kept it small and simple so far. How about some big deals now. Okay not yet. I just don´t see the Wolves trading KAT for our trash. They might move on from Anderson to not upset Gobert more.

Suggested trade: Anderson for Bullock.

Pelicans

Here comes the pimp party Hard-On. Anybody noticed that the Pelicans still have no PG, so here we go. They also have a shitload of picks, so that´s my sneaky Harden destination.

Suggested trade: James Harden to the Pelicans. As part of the deal: Lewis + Temple (non-guaranteed) to Mavs, Bullock to Sixers.

Knicks

At this point we must have sufficiently scared the Knicks that they are never getting that 1st round pick, so...

Suggested trade: Fournier + Mavs 2024 1st round pick (back) for Bullock + Wood.

OKC

Since it seems offical that Saric will sign with the Warriors, I don´t have much to offer here, except....POKU baby. I still believe.


Suggested trade: Pokusevski for an exception  or Pokusevski for McGee + 2nd round pick.

Magic

The draft/free agency somewhat helped their backcourt issues, and they still have capspace.

Suggested trade: Isaac for Bullock + McGee


...to be continued.