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

[F Gump]

Is it time to talk about Jerami Grant again? Would he be willing to be the two-way scoring 6th man we need? What would it take to trade for him?

I have no interest whatsoever in Grant. Other might feel differently, but I just don't see the attraction. He was very desirable when he was an MLE player in DEN taking limited shots and doing the dirty work, but now he has the expectation that he gets lots of shots and let someone else do the dirty work. I say that makes him a bad fit for the Mavs.

I'm not sure that in the current NBA economic model, you can afford 3-or-more max type players. Trying to squeeze in 3 rather than 2, you can fit in the salary for the big names, but the quality of the roster gets real thin quickly. Look at the Mavs, where the only bad contract is probably THJ, and with only 2 max players the payroll is already really full. See DJJ, Salary for.

And I'm sure Grant's trade price tag would be a deal killer for me. You have to send out salary of $30M, which means you are sending out multiple very needed players. Plus picks - POR would undoubtedly be asking for multiple picks too, because on a going-nowhere team, why wouldn't they have high price tags? They can wait for someone to pay an arm and a leg. 

For this summer, it's not as splashy, but I rather see the Mavs trying to turn THJ (or THJ + , to get to a proper salary match) into someone much more useful by attaching his expiring contract to a pick (which pick being determined by which player, of course). But imo Grant's not anywhere close to that guy (or the right salary, either). Avdija? Isaac? Somebody in NO? Thybulle? Caruso?