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

[cow]

There's zero chance the Mavs are operating as a second apron team next year.  So the decision is either trade AD now or in the offseason.  This is why IMO the Mavs are not in the drivers seat of negotiations as some are suggesting.  They HAVE to get rid of AD, probably more than Atlanta needs AD.

If you guys want to argue not to trade him now, we need reasoning why you think there will be better offers this summer.  Making an arbitrary line in the sand of not trading him unless you get the NOLA pick makes very little sense to me.  Someone else posted that you can wait until after the draft lottery so Atlanta knows where that pick is.  That's really the only reasonable argument I've seen for waiting to trade him until this summer.  Atlanta might be willing to include that pick if it doesn't end up being a top 3 or top 5 pick.

The only other team interested in him according to reports is Toronto.  Their assets are even worse than Atlanta's

I think there is a middle ground though.  We'd all love the NOP pick, but if that's unlikely, it's equally valid to like or not like what an Atlanta offer looks like without that pick.  

Yes there is smoke around Atlanta, but that doesn't mean they are the only ones interested in AD, they are just the ones with the most leaks around them.