05-18-2023, 12:17 PM
I really wonder what #10 can get you. Players like White and Brogdon were acquired by late FRP. Mavs weakness is they don't have salary relief to give. Only Bullock is trully expiring. Capela, Collins, DFS, D.Green, Gafford should be in that late pick teritory. OG, Turner, Hunter or Ayton could be in the #10 teritory. Problem I see is that the tanking teams are really left without anything decent and so far there has been no new team blowing it up. Not much signals Chicago, Washington or Toronto want to go in a completely new directions. So all teams might value those players higher than what they are worth. Since it looks like that majority of the league wants to win. I only have Utah, Charlotte and San Antonio as tanking/developing teams, perhaps Indy. The rest will be likely more interested in decent players and salary relief, but Mavs can't really offer any of that.
In any case, Toronto is the only one of potential tankers with some really interesting players and there might be a huge bidding war for them. OG and #12 for Nurkic and #3 would be more interesting for Toronto than taking #10, for example. Portland could then still use #12 for even another player. Similar deal could be done with Indy (they have #7) for Turner. Same as Portland, Houston will also be likely aggresively looking to add players. Perhaps even Detroit.
In any case, Toronto is the only one of potential tankers with some really interesting players and there might be a huge bidding war for them. OG and #12 for Nurkic and #3 would be more interesting for Toronto than taking #10, for example. Portland could then still use #12 for even another player. Similar deal could be done with Indy (they have #7) for Turner. Same as Portland, Houston will also be likely aggresively looking to add players. Perhaps even Detroit.