Trade & FA 2024-25:

[Jmaciscool]

Two years ago, the roster was underwhelming.

Now...

Luka
Kyrie
Klay
Washington
Lively

Between these top three players, how many playoff games is that? How many all-star games?

Without giving it much thought, the current roster is likely the most talented Mavs team ever assembled, and Lively will almost certainly be an all-star himself. It's probably a younger team than the team that won it in 2011. The rotation looks stronger than it ever has, and the salary hit is manageable by most of today's measurements. On top of that, the Front Office is now a proven commodity.

Naturally, any team could catch the injury bug, and getting to the finals certainly not a given in this conference. OKC will even be the favorite in the West I suspect. But isn't nice to be a Mavs fan when the roster looks like this?

I mean Damn!

The Mavs have their CLEAR franchise guy (have for a while now obviously).
They have a CLEAR all star caliber running mate.
They have YOUTH.
They have CHAMPIONSHIP EXPERIENCED vets.
They have NO bad contracts
They haven't spent ALL of their picks to build this roster.

That's pretty amazing.  Most (any?) rosters can't make all of those same claims.