TRADE: SAC trades Holmes+Prosper to Mavs

[Jmaciscool]

Contrary to what most sports fans seem to think most players aren´t robots. Their performances usually don´t just deteriorate in their physical primes. It is injuries, addiction problems, mental problems or other personal reasons. You just need to evaluate the reasons and whether they can be overcome. Historically the Mavs have been notoriously ignorant or bad in these situations that demanded research and player evaluations.

This has all the trademarks of a bounce back year for Holmes.

He won the custody battle that must have weighed heavily on his mind. He´s getting out of the toxic environment and bad memories the Sacbee created for him in Sacramento with their accusations. He gets a change of scenery, in a completely new place. That´s exactly the kind of player you can bet on.

I think it's exactly the kind of player you can bet on when that player is the "cost" of getting another asset.  The difference to me is that in the past it felt like the Mavs bet on players like this as the actual target of the trade which made success dependent on that bet coming true.  I much prefer this route where you get an asset and a potential bonus of the "cost" not ending up as an actual cost.