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[KillerLeft]

Mavs can't tank the next 2-3 seasons, they only own their '26 pick then everything else is out of their control. It's just this year and then forced to win as much as possible from there on out.

Yeah, I think there are a number of potential ways forward from here - a number of variations on how much of a step back they should take to open the way forward. But the option I like the least out of all of them is to bottom out and tank for multiple years. 

I'm not against it in theory, but as you said, they don't have their own picks, which are the most important assets to control in the midst of that approach. It would be one thing if 2-4 of those picks were owned by one team and there was a plausible way of getting them back (I can't remember who, but we just saw a team do that recently), but the Mavs' picks are all over the place. It's just not a tenable strategy, imho.