07-16-2022, 03:26 PM
(07-16-2022, 03:16 PM)mvossman Wrote: Those are all bad/tanking teams that are doing what they can to take advantage of that. They don't have a superstar that they are trying to build around and convince to stay on his next contract. As Gump just pointed out, dumping those three players just gets us to the cap line. We would have to dump useful players in order to use cap space creatively to get some additional draft capital. Given that we need to be good soon and have shown no ability to be creative in this area in the past, it does not seem like a very good tradeoff.
As opposed to trading three 1st round picks and a couple of 2nds to end up with THJ, Bertans and Dinwiddie. Or trading Crowder + 1st to end up with Powell? Or trading Barnes for Jackson+2nd then not using the capspace it generated. Or trading a 1st for a suicidial drug addict? Or trading a 2nd for a retired podcaster and a scrub. Or trading Curry for Richardson? Or trading four 2nd round picks for the whole Delon Wright experience.
The Mavs haven´t won a trade since 2010, except for a draft day trade, that they would not have needed, if they weren´t completely stupid. And that would not exist, if the Kings weren´t completely stupid.
So what makes trading a more viable strategy than free agency?