05-21-2024, 02:07 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-21-2024, 02:08 PM by KillerLeft.)
(05-21-2024, 02:03 PM)mvossman Wrote: I think this makes a lot of sense from an asset management perspective. But I don't think you can generate enough money for DJJ in a Gafford trade unless its a full salary dump. I don't think you consider that unless you can get a first, and I am skeptical you are going to be able to do that.
What might make sense is to do a Timmy salary dump, trade Gafford for a 6th man, sign DJJ and then pickup Bitadze for the tax MLE.
Your instincts on value are at least as good as mine, but...didn't the Mavs just pay a first for Gafford? I mean, I know their cost was a pick swap with OKC (actually much more valuable than most firsts that change hands, but that's a different conversation), but they did that so OKC would send WAS a first, no?
If he was worth a first at the deadline, and he has been more in the spotlight ever since, having praise heaped on him (some of it actually earned, at times), why, now, would you be skeptical that he's worth a first? Are you saying the Mavs made a bad deal?