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

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I agree that Dwight Powell is a winning player and appreciate this defense of him.  I have similar thoughts about Tim Hardaway Jr. and I don’t understand why the Mavericks now seem desperate to trade him.

Who knows how hard they are trying to move Hardaway.  It does seem like there is a lot of smoke though.

I think for Hardaway is he duplicates what we have on our roster and then there is a size issue.   He is probably a better player than Hardy right now, but I believe Dallas thinks they have something and Hardy is going to get 20 plus minutes next year.  Those minutes were Hardaway’s last year.   The second issue is size.  If Hardy is getting 20 plus a night that leaves the only opening SF minutes.   If Green and Hardaway are eating up all your SF minutes, that just leaves you a pretty small team.   

I would not move him at all costs though.   He is still a good player and his value should go up this year and next offseason.    He may be the best short term option at SF too.