ROSTER TALK: Mavs favs for Vogel if no HC job exists. Kyrie handshake deal?

[DallasMaverick]

Yes, and honestly I don’t think AD is the play, he still has time left to get back to where he was. I think a newly extended LBJ is who they should trade. I don’t expect it to happen, but it should while he still has productive numbers.

I just remember how the Lakers dealt with Kobe's declining years.  He was massively overpaid, at that point, which prevented any kind of reasonable roster construction.

Just take a gander at this roster:
https://basketball.realgm.com/nba/teams/...rrent/2015

...but the front office was happy to lose games because the fans wanted to see Kobe, and perhaps they felt a rush of gratitude for all he'd meant for the city and the franchise.  And, of course, he wasn't about to take a discount.  And if they'd "cheaped out", the city would have turned on the ownership and management forever (Tom Landry, anyone?).  You don't fire an icon.

I sort of feel the same way about LeBron, at this point.  Yes, he's still pretty productive.  And it seems like he still puts butts in seats.  But roster construction is virtually impossible.

You could make a case that their roster problems have more to do with the acquisition of Westbrook than LeBron's cost/benefit ratio. But both have a lot to contribute.