01-01-2023, 05:31 PM
One thing that I think gets really glossed over still when we talk about trading picks is the Luka contract timeline.
Trading our 2027 pick this season means you HAVE to have heavy protections on that pick much like the second pick in the KP trade because Luka is not under contract by the time you have to send that pick off so making it unprotected would be crazy but it also would then put us in the same boat we're already in with the protections on the KP pick making things difficult this season to navigate the trade market.
You wait til this offseason and then you can move two unprotected picks that are happening while Luka is still under contract with the hope that if Luka looks like he's going to leave at the end of the deal you move him for a ton of picks but if you build a roster around him that he wants to stay in Dallas and contend here you can now repeat the process of moving future picks right away to continue to bolster the roster for his next extension.
Trading our 2027 pick this season means you HAVE to have heavy protections on that pick much like the second pick in the KP trade because Luka is not under contract by the time you have to send that pick off so making it unprotected would be crazy but it also would then put us in the same boat we're already in with the protections on the KP pick making things difficult this season to navigate the trade market.
You wait til this offseason and then you can move two unprotected picks that are happening while Luka is still under contract with the hope that if Luka looks like he's going to leave at the end of the deal you move him for a ton of picks but if you build a roster around him that he wants to stay in Dallas and contend here you can now repeat the process of moving future picks right away to continue to bolster the roster for his next extension.