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

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Give me 10 points/4 assists and +6 every night for the Mav's.  I'm hopeful he can secure more than the 'emergency' role and be the third PG.  This idea that he's a wing and not a PG doesn't look the least bit true based on what I've seen in his games with Australia.  He may be exactly what we need next to either Hardy or Curry.

The question I have about Exum is can he and Hardy or he and Curry run the show successfully without Luka or Kyrie for a few minutes.  It would be nice to have lineups that work without one of them so we wouldn't have to necessarily stagger Luka and Kyrie as much.

They'll try some non-Luka, non-Kyrie lineups in preseason and we'll see how that works against NBA players.   I think Exum will mostly be a 3 and D wing for us.  I think he may also become our emergency point guard if Kyrie or Luka are unavailable.   That would make him a very valuable player for us.  I think success would be if he finishes 9th-11th in minutes played this year.  He's a big upgrade over Justin Holiday.  I really respect how much adversity he's overcome and how much he's improved over the past few years.  I think Jason Kidd might actually help him further develop his point guard skills as well.  I am really liking this signing right now.

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David Aldridge from the Athletic has the Mavs with the 7th best offseason.  Teams he ranks better than Dallas are Lakers, Pacers, Celtics, suns,  Cavs and Spurs.

I think we should be higher.  I actually think the Cavs had one of the worst off-seasons.  I don't really love the Bruce Brown signing for the Pacers either so I think we did better than them.  I also don't see that the Celtics improved.  I think we should be fourth.