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

[KillerLeft]

If there is a way to get the CLE 1st from ATL by plugging in Gafford or Marshall into an AD trade that would be the way to go.

We REALLY need to start building towards the Flagg era. Replacing Kyrie will be hard enough without tradeable picks or cap room.

Outside of the SD stuff trading Marshall would be priority nr 1 for me. He is only under contract for 1.5 seasons. Gotta sell high for once, get a shot at another long term rotation guy and nail that pick.

I would not mind trading Gafford but he would be an important safety net here next season given Lively‘s health troubles. OTOH I do see the point in moving him now given that he doesnt appear to be a great fit anymore.

Pretty much right there with all of this.

Only, I keep seeing people mention the need to keep Gafford because of AD possibly being traded and Lively being hurt. I get it from a "number of quality centers" standpoint, but to be honest I think this point guard-less season has proven that Gafford currently doesn't fit here very well at all, regardless of who's available to play or not. I might be wrong about this, but to my thinking there's kind of no point in keeping Gafford around without a plan to use him offensively, and what we've seen them do to work him in this season has not been working. He's not old, exactly, but he's not young, either, and the Mavs are currently wasting one of his last prime seasons asking him to be a complete fish out of water. I'd be very tempted to sell high on him, too, regardless of what happens with AD. Just my personal take on it. I think it's the best thing for him, even.