12-29-2025, 07:27 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-29-2025, 07:30 AM by ThisIStheYear.)
(12-29-2025, 02:15 AM)F Gump Wrote: "Trade rumor" -- You are saying KP, Risacher, Kennard for AD is being discussed (and seriously) by DAL and ATL?
If so, surely something must be missing in the reports, since it's not even a legal trade match for DAL (it would throw the Mavs over the hard cap, which is not allowed) and it would prevent them from having either cap space or roster space to sign Nemby to a regular NBA deal.
Personally I can't understand how the Mavs would even want to consider a talent return like that for AD. What I see is 1 guy (Risacher) who looks like an overpaid cap-clogging bust, and 2 expiring filler pieces (KP, Kennard) who would likely be gone in June (so representing no useful talent to put around Flagg). For AD, I would have to think they can do way better.
I think Exum is in it as well. Maybe that makes it legal. It’s a salary dump trade, pure and simple, that would solve a great many looming financial issues and give the Mavs access to a wider array of team building approaches while maximizing the potential 2026 pick. Couldn’t they buy out Kennard and KP after the trade to create a roster spot for Nemby? I guess Powell would have to be released as well. It’s better than carrying AD’s albatross contract hoping to see Nico’s idiotic vision through. Nico screwed us folks. AD will soon be gone in a salary dump trade, and if you look deep into Max’s advanced stats, he’s a bottom 5 player on the roster. The Mavs will end up with air from the Luka trade. But, that’s water under the bridge, a sunk cost, time to move on.