2020-2021 AROUND the NBA: Archived

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I'm pretty sure Nico is in win now mode.
His boss is telling him to be, his superstar is addicted to winning and hates losing, the rest of the roster is in his prime or far from playing, we have cap but no pics. What else than win now can he do?

I guess it depends how you define win now.  Mavs are kind of stuck in the middle.  Too good to be a lottery team, not nearly good enough to be a championship team.  I think they'll try to improve the team with our available cap space, but if that doesn't work out, you could use that cap space to take on shorter, bad contracts and try to grab assets.  They could do this with KP too.  You could also flip our better players/contracts (Brunson, DFS, Maxi) for future picks.  

I agree that Mark wants to win, he's always impatient.  But if you can't land an impact player with our cap space, there is no use in spending money on a player along the lines of Wright or Richardson as you aren't improving the ceiling of the team (2nd round exit).