05-21-2024, 02:11 PM
(05-21-2024, 02:07 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: 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?
It was a late first in a historically bad draft. Thats why it only cost a swap to get. And the issue is that you are looking at one of very few teams that have the cap space (or trade exception) to bring him in without sending anything back. That is going to limit your market. Its possible you can get a first if there is a good fit out there, but I would not count on it given the limitations.
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