HALLELUKA: Luka Clinches All-NBA 1st team. 4th in 5 years

[DanSchwartzgan]

That was odd from the get go.  Could the Mavs been playing 3 D chess?   Maybe start the year and thinking if KP was going to work here it needed to be at PF.   Once that failed, they knew they would have to move him but put him at C to increase his value only to see him get hurt again?   Probably not.  But the whole KP and Powell lineup to start the season felt like a lost cause right away.

Recall that they were talking to Chriss well before Omicron became a thing.  It only came out when he actually came here during Omicron.  Makes me wonder if they knew they would do something like this and needed a body behind Powell and Maxi once KP was gone.