01-23-2020, 05:56 PM
(01-23-2020, 03:52 PM)HanspardsShowerVoice Wrote: Clippers and Celtics need bigs for a title run and are closer to a title this year than the Mavs. Better for the Mavs not to get in a bidding war against these teams out of some panic over the DP injury and jeopardize their roster and cap flexibility long term. I'm fine with some cheap 1 year fixes even if they don't really move the needle.
Celtics have no contracts to trade unless they want to trade Hayward. Clippers have lots of good players but do they need to trade anybody? Their team is awesome. It's the blueprint of a team you would want to build, I am not sure why they would need to trade anyone.
Lakers and 76ers are in every trade rumor any yet they also don't have contracts to trade. The Lakers have Kuzma which is their one tradable asset (and could be on the move for a better fitting trade).
Mavs have a big advantage in the trade market in that they have Lee and a large TE. Mavs for example could get 18 million dollar Tristan Thompson for Lee + one small contract (Broekhoff for example). Not a lot of contenders can do that. Mavs also have several young players on good contracts that could be moved for a bigger deal. My suspicion is that they do not want to trade away good players for a big, but would rather get some kind of inexpensive big. I do think they would give up real assets for Covington though.