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[F Gump]

I agree. It’s a little weird, though some of that was a product of playing through an injury. But he’s young, I know what I saw, and I know what the data say. And even so, I’d rather have an empty roster spot than Martin, not to mention the extra draft capital we threw in to a lopsided trade.

Yep. 

That trade was a Nico Special, where.the cap got clogged by an unneeded player (who was injured to boot), and the Mavs PAID to make it happen. 

They would be so much better right now, in about every way, if that trade never happened, and I am assuming Grimes would not have been kept. 

Martin is costing them HUGE extra tax payments. If they can't move him for free (or at all, at some point), Dumont may end up paying something like 100M in extra tax, for nothing. 

Nico is such an idiot as a GM. Its stunning how bad he is.