07-15-2025, 04:37 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-15-2025, 04:38 PM by Scott41theMavs.)
(07-15-2025, 04:25 PM)Smitty Wrote: I'm not OUT on Lively. I just want him to be available. This season is a big one. Like you, if he's around 40-50 games played again this year, I'd be open to including him in a trade. So far, any mention of that has been Taboo. At the very least, I wouldn't give him Gafford money on any rookie extension. Which he'd be eligible for next summer.
Let's say that we knew for sure that Lively was a 41-games-a-year, every-other-playoffs center, guaranteed (to be that bad but no worse in terms of availability).
To me, due to his skill set and upward trajectory based on his elephantine BBIQ (cf. progress from Duke to now), I'd argue he's still almost worth Gafford (useless in the playoffs) money.