07-12-2022, 08:34 PM
(07-12-2022, 11:36 AM)Chicagojk Wrote: So would you agree with the following:
Here are potential guards who could be available
Kemba Walker- minimum salary
Eric Bledsoe- Probably above minimum but could accept less for contender
Collin Sexton- Would cost assets to acquire
Kyle Lowry- Negative asset to Miami
Mike Conley- Slight asset for Utah
Patrick Beverly- Slight asset for Utah
V. Micic- OKC would require an asset
Dennis Smith- minimum salary
Kyrie Irving- maybe slight asset to Brooklyn, but may just want to get off him if KD is moved.
Dennis Schroeder- Probably above minimum, but where?
This list gets my hopes up that surely the Mavs are waiting for one of those minimum salary guys to be willing to negotiate with them. However, my knowledge of the past tells me that they think that they're fine and they're done.
If they think they can get away with going into the season with just two ball-handlers and think that things are going to be just as rosy as they were at the end of last season and in the playoffs, I would tend to think that this season is going to be a very long one. And I think they're thinking that.