Trade & FA 2024-25:

[Jason Terry]

Let me say this: people will roll their eyes, and I doubt we'll ever know for sure because the Mavs are likely to be buyers, not sellers, for the next year at least. But, Kleber is the type of useful bench vet you can get a late first for at the deadline, as long as he's healthy. You couldn't get that for him NOW (just like BRK is struggling to get one for DFS), but at the deadline, a contender who's close and needs what Kleber can bring to the table might bite the bullet.

Exactly. We went years and years with Maxi and Dorian as the only non-Luka players worth a damn. Maxi is far more rare than the Dorian types. The list of true 5 out centers is short. Maybe like 10 names and Maxi is one of them