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

[F Gump]

Dallas waiting on Detroit all this time to dump Kemba? Detroit waiting all this time on Dallas? The timing seems awfully suspicious to me.

It's certainly possible that Dallas, DET, and Kemba have all been playing a big game of chicken, all knowing that Kemba will end up in Dallas, but each trying to do it to their own advantage and see who blinks first ... where DET wants Dallas to trade for him (so they don't have to eat his contract) or for Kemba to take less to be waived, and neither one biting, just waiting until DET has to clear a roster space and waives him.

To me, the most mutually beneficial outcome would have been a swap of THJ for Burks-Kemba, with something in it to be gained by everyone, but I guess not.

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Or has Frankie fallen out of favor enough to cut his NG salary for Kemba?

Franky is fully gtd