FA: Klay Thompson Comes to Dallas| 3yrs/50mil

[Jason Terry]

This.
I don't even know why people are throwing him on trades as if he is a liability.
This board has less of those ideas, but if you look elsewhere, you'd think Maxi is as useless as DP.

Maxi allows the Mavs to let Omax develop.
Maxi allows Lively to slowly develop his 3 game and NOT rush into shooting more of those.
Maxi gives the Mavs that big who can guard those perimeter guys that Lively and Gafford can't.
Maxi allows PJ to be more aggressive on D, knowing a legit PF is behind him in case he gets into foul trouble.

NOTE: Naji isn't a PF, but I can see Kidd get him minutes there, but overall I'm not counting Naji as a 4. Mavs will have to do with PJ-Maxi and Omax. And I like that PF rotation.

I’m with you. Maxi is a solution to so many problems as you lay out. It would be foolish to dump him. He has Al Horford type career trajectory potential of playing for a long time. Ask PJ Tucker too how long you can play  with those same skills. Some years were better than others but when they’re healthy they’re playoff caliber 

Ideally, Maxi would be a 5 only at this point 

Lively/Gafford/Maxi 

We run so much PnR action that we need depth at the position to handle the long season with injuries. Maxi gives us a different look. It’s a perfect rotation where all 3 balance each other out. 

The extra minutes for Maxi at the 4 are out of position and only are needed because he’s good and Omax hasn’t figured it out yet