(08-27-2021, 07:45 PM)cow Wrote: +How we traded Barnes
Barnes was a pending FA who Dallas already knew they didn't plan to keep. So they traded him early (for pennies on the dollar) to a team of his choice that was then able to sign him to an $85mm deal using his Bird rights. He was kept in the loop the entire time, he chose to keep playing because he's a good dude, and to my knowledge he's never said a negative thing about the entire situation.
Look past the anti-Mavs narrative spun by people who don't know what they're talking about, and Dallas went out of their way to treat Barnes extremely well.