Trade & FA 2024-25:

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It's tough to pinpoint Kleber's value for a variety of reasons, but count me in the group who thinks he has become underrated around here this year.

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My point is this: while the injuries/availability part probably affects Kleber's trade value quite a bit, none of us know to what extent, and I'm pretty confident that some team out there would be open to taking a chance on him. There just aren't many guys who can do what he can do. Ten years from now there will be dozens of them, but right now he's still a pretty unique player. The true question, to my way of thinking, is can the Mavs afford to trade him? I am in favor of it if it's helpful, but my goodness they'd better have a plan for replacing him first.

When he is available and hitting his 3-pointers, Maxi is a really good role player.  Unfortunately, that's not very often.  I don't think there would be much trade market for him around the league given his contract.

I'd much rather keep him and hope that we can get some good playoff minutes from him next season.  I don't think we can depend on him for too much but he's a nice luxury to have on the bench in certain matchups.  I appreciate how he quickly he came back from injury and how hard he played despite the bad shoulder.