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

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Cato’s podcast today had “Mavs Draft” (Richard) on to talk draft.  Lot’s of talk of the value of moving back.

1. Move back to move bad salary for a more useful veteran

2. Move back for picks

3. Move back to combine the #10 with assets for someone good


Most of the talk was about #1.  Richard likes the value in this area better than the guys at #10.  When Tim asked for his favorite scenario, it was moving down to #16 to move Bertans (no player specified, but a June deal with Utah matches Olynyk) and drafting from among Bufkin, JHS from Indiana, Coulibaly and Jordan Hawkins.  When pinned down to his favorite, he sees Noah Clowney as a riser and likes him better than Lively.

Olynyk makes about $5mm less than Bertans and would be more useful.  He plays both C and PF and spreads the floor similar to Maxi.  In fact, I could see him and Maxi sharing the PF position or I could see him making Maxi expendible in a deal for a center.  Don’t know if that is Allen or Ayton or what.

These guy broke up Porzingis into two pieces, cause it was more tradeable. Now they want to pay to trade one of those easily moveable pieces AFTER Porzingis will probably opt out of his contract. Ah well this front office has no shame, which is one of Cuban´s worst qualities. He might be a petty little child, but he has no shame to crawl back to washed-up Jordan or Deron. I´ll say it a hundred times. You do not salary dump an expiring contract after you sat on that trash for two years. Horrible asset management.