(12-16-2022, 05:40 PM)MFFL Wrote: What should we say? I feel bad for the guy but he's doing what's best for his health at this point. I have zero emotional connection to the guy since he was barely on the team.

I have more emotional connection to the 2 early second rounders that we wasted that year.

(12-16-2022, 05:40 PM)MFFL Wrote: What should we say? I feel bad for the guy but he's doing what's best for his health at this point. I have zero emotional connection to the guy since he was barely on the team.

I have more emotional connection to the 2 early second rounders that we wasted that year.

(12-17-2022, 11:56 AM)StrandedOnBeauboisHill Wrote: His whole account is a great breakdown of Wood last night.

(12-17-2022, 12:18 PM)BoredAssistant Wrote: This one in particular is good to hear:
https://twitter.com/GrantAfseth/status/1603980102114615297?s=20&t=YQREX_tGH6TH0jdHCbG4NA

(12-17-2022, 12:20 PM)StrandedOnBeauboisHill Wrote: Also kind of confirming that Powell is probably out tonight so…does Wood start with Luka for the first time this season?

(12-17-2022, 12:30 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: hahah...I bet McGee gets a shot.

 
 I can't pretend that my foremost focus at the annual Showcase in Vegas is the actual basketball, because I'm obviously here to network with as many league executives, coaches and agents as possible. But one source of on-court action that always hooks me is the emergence of NBA veterans who enter the G League right at Showcase time because they know that the event is so heavily scouted and hope to play their way back into the big leagues. Nine-year NBA veteran guard Trey Burke joined the Stockton Kings (Sacramento's G League affiliate) earlier this month and I've been reporting this week on two more vets (Sterling Brown and David Nwaba) who are trying to play their way back into the league:

(12-18-2022, 06:33 PM)omahen Wrote: Damn...

Mark Followill on Twitter: "Injury reported submitted by the Mavs today for tomorrow night's game at Minnesota: Questionable - Luka (R quad strain), Hardaway and Bertans (non-Covid illness), Powell (L thigh contusion). Out - Green and Kleber...as well as Hardy/Dorsey/Wright IV on G-League assignment." / Twitter

(12-19-2022, 01:45 PM)Chicagojk Wrote: Doesn’t sound promising

https://twitter.com/calliecaplan/status/1604907111414202379?s=46&t=0EaCEaXRB5s6HI3mwtNmkQ

Quote:Kai H. asks, “What is the current view of Josh Green in the front office? Is he being talked about in trade discussions, or is he viewed as a key piece?”
Dallas understands it must build a title-contending team around Dončić in the next couple seasons, and every non-Dončić player on the roster should be considered available in that pursuit. That said, my understanding is that the Mavericks would be very hesitant to trade Green at this point. One person in the front office told me that he considered him the team’s third-most important player after Dončić and Dinwiddie.
In my opinion, Green isn’t a player who should be traded for anything other than a package for a legitimate star. And the chances are pretty slim that the Mavericks could build any package right now, even including Green, that would net them another star. That makes his future with the team fairly safe, at least for now. I’m more curious what type of extension Dallas might consider for him this coming summer.

(12-19-2022, 03:21 PM)SleepingHero Wrote: https://theathletic.com/4010316/2022/12/19/mavericks-mailbag-trade-chatter-christian-wood/

(12-19-2022, 03:11 PM)MarkAguirreWrathofGod Wrote: Of course it was a Greyson Allen arm lock, of course it was. I’d be willing to bet they even called a foul on Green for getting his arm locked.

(12-19-2022, 03:23 PM)Chicagojk Wrote: I am just reading it as well.  I am surprised Dinwiddie is #2.   Maybe there aren't many options, but while I don't have a final verdict on Dinwiddie yet, I feel like he is replaceable.