Trade & FA 2025-26: Free Agency Starts 5pm CST/6pm EST

[Smitty]

You guys are absolutely delusional if you think we could get both Risacher and the Pelicans pick for AD. 

I absolutely agree that in the end, if/when the AD trade happens, both of those assets won't be in the deal. BUT one of them will be. I don't agree with some that the NOP pick is "off limits". Some act as though it is the guaranteed #1 pick in the draft and that the top guy is already going to be MJ-lite. 

The Hawks will give up something. From their POV Risacher, who I don't have a strong opinion on either way, is their #1 overall pick from last year. They surely value him, as do their fans. How the Mavs brass value the player, we don't know. I think Risacher and pick(s) of some kind (not the NO pick) will be what the "prize" is for AD in the end. I keep coming back to the '27 FRP being a real want for the Mavs FO, since they owe theirs to CHA...