Trade & FA 2023-24: Stein-Ingram Trade Inevitable| LAL Want Lebron Back On Any Terms

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Kyrie Irving certainly has the right to leave in free agency.

But the Mavericks don’t plan to assist any other team in acquiring him in a sign-and-trade, @tim_cato writes.

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Seems like the Mavs are set on Kyrie.....or this is posturing. In either case, I'm penciling a Kyrie return.

Which means we better find a good defensive center. Does CLE really want to give away Jarrett Allen?

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Kleber signed an extension prior to last season that will pay him $11 million each of the next three seasons. He’s as available as anyone else on the roster not named Dončić.

But Kleber probably won’t be traded this summer, not after the disappointing season he had sandwiched around midseason surgery. Other teams might like Kleber as a player, but his league-wide valuation has been understandably reduced by those injury- and age-related factors. Basically, Kleber would be much more valuable to the Mavericks if he does return to playing like his best self next season than if he was traded. He’s also a player who has benefited from playing with Dončić, something the league increasingly realizes about Dallas’ role players after seeing Dorian Finney-Smith’s production decline in Brooklyn.