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

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Not when we’re also getting off of Holmes contract, not at all. Look, I have just as much hope as the rest that Holmes regains his 20-21 form here. I was with everyone that year in wanting to get him. Fact is, he hasn’t shown anything since being traded, so his value isn’t any higher than the value we traded him for, otherwise Sac would have realized that value instead of us. It’s for sure an even trade, you yourself may not want to do it, but it’s even.

I think you're underestimating the value of that '27 relative to a garden-variety late first rounder given up by a top 10 team in the league. To me, that pick is worth maybe 3 of those, due to almost no protections being possible, and due to the FACT that the entire structure of the Mavs roster will be drastically different (meaning unknown) by then. 

Kyrie will almost certainly be gone. Will Luka still be here? Will ANY of the current role players still be here? 

I'm not opposed to spending it in the right deal, but to use it for a stop gap center when you just used another pick to draft one would be insane. 

I would definitely spend "a first" for Capela if the team was in position to do so. He's worth more than Christian Wood was last year, for comparison. It's just that they find themselves in the situation where THAT first is the only one they can move. To me, that means the pendulum needs to swing to the stingier side, not to the devil may care side.