2023 DRAFT: Mavs take Lively, OMP, sign Mike Miles to 2-way, sign Jordan Walker

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Edit: Just looked up Christian Braun's numbers in the playoffs. 2.7 ppg in 13 minutes. If this is what Dallas gets out of the 10th pick next year, we will be wishing Luka well in his future endeavors.

My point is that he is contributing on a MUCH better roster than ours.  Do you think someone of his talent wouldn't have an even bigger role on this roster?  The idea that we're trading the pick is that we're really close to putting a contender together, they may be able to pull it off and add two starting front court players that fit the bill and bring us back into relevancy but based on that team last year and the new cba it may be better to start developing talent instead of continuing to mortgage the future.

I'm usually pro flipping picks if you have someone like Luka and Kyrie for all of the reasons that you're mentioning but this team doesn't really need some all star proven vet anyway, it needs wing defense, rim protection and rebounding.  Those are things you could get from a rookie pretty early on.