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[F Gump]

My initial point is that PJW is Aaron Gordon. Maybe better. Just my opinion. Getting a player of PJ’s caliber at $22M AAV through age 30 might be one of the best contracts in the NBA. I’m just not trading that for a stop gap PG.

You argue for keeping PJW, based on your assumption PJW is willing to sign a max 4/90 extension. But what if he'd rather wait a year to sign anything, when his 4-year max will be around 220?

Or what if he has no interest in extending here, with minutes drying up by the additions of both AD and CF??

Some of us (maybe most) who would trade him are assuming he may stop being financially advantageous -- and that if things are headed in that direction, Mavs need to be proactive and get value (in particular, a good value offense creator).. And the crossroads is this summer.