As we approach the NBA trade deadline more and more articles are appearing saying who the Mavericks might trade for. Who? Well, the answer is absolutely no one. Why give up good players for what another good player? Yes, the Mavericks do not have a “third superstar”. So.
Or some articles keep saying they need a “3 and D” guy. Yet, all the names that surface are not superstars and their statistics do not say WOW!, this guy is so much better than our guys. They just don’t. And yet all these articles want us to give up two or three players and a draft pick for a player that isn’t moving the needle. There are no earth-shattering trade possibilities right now that work for the Mavericks.
We don’t want Chris Paul, we don’t need Robert Covington, we definitely don’t need the two or three centers being mentioned. Kevin Love can play elsewhere. There isn’t a Laker that is going to be traded that will benefit the Mavericks.
Kawhi Leonard, Paul George, Kemba Walker. Joel Embid, Jimmy Butler, Karl Anthony Townes are not coming to the Mavericks. The very few players that would make a difference for the Mavericks are not coming here. They didn’t come last summer, or trades weren’t available last summer and we do not have first-round picks for any package to get one of the players that would make us automatic Championship contenders.
The Mavericks are a good team that is surprising people and could continue to surprise people as they stand right now. Keep the 8 or 9 players rotating behind Luka and sometimes KP and keep them as they continue to delight Mavs fans for the rest of the year.
Courtney Lee’s contract expires this summer, JJ Barea may or may not play on, and just about everyone else has at least another year with this team. Let this team playout for the rest of this year and next unless something so astronomical changes in the NBA that one of the 5-10 difference makers in the NBA want something different so bad they force a move like Anthony Davis did, and even then don’t give up half the ship to get one player.
At least 80% of this team is in their prime or moving into their prime and all are competitive players. Let this team enjoy playing with each other. This gives this team two years to overachieve and the potential is definitely there and spend the time evaluating players for free agency or a trade when it comes time to resign Luka. If the Mavs over achieve then the right trade(s) will come about because then you will know which players work best with Luka and which are maybe duplicates or not the right fit and another team may be a better fit and then everyone is happy.
We have a good team, borderline very good team, borderline super surprise team, why screw it up because some GM wants to unload a player so they can rebuild. We have done a good job, why make it easy for another team.
Cheers!
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