3 hours ago
(Yesterday, 01:06 PM)Smitty Wrote: @ShamsCharania
Dallas Mavericks' Anthony Davis is likely to undergo surgery to repair ligament damage in his left hand and miss several months, sources tell ESPN. His Dallas season is essentially over, given the prognosis and the Mavs' direction.
@ShamsCharania
Fascinating development: The Mavericks are having renewed Davis trade talks with multiple interested teams, sources said. If moved to a playoff contender, the return timeline could allow Davis to return during the postseason while establishing himself for the long-term elsewhere.
Shams is great at reporting what has already happened, but he's taken that great skill and used it to get a gig as ESPN's "ace NBA reporter of all things" that he's VERY unreliable at. We should never bank what he's saying as gospel, because it's been demonstrated repeatedly to be stuff that may not be true at all (agent-speak, it would seem, and all agents have an agenda) mixed with his own speculation presented as fact that turns out to be nonsense.
" His Dallas season is essentially over, given the prognosis and the Mavs' direction." -- That was a classic Shams approach, offering such a speculatively-definitive conclusion when the facts were still evolving and unknown. Even we in this forum knew the outcome was very much up in the air.
I would hope the Mavs rest of season has them tanking their butts off to get that high pick, no matter what. If they can land in the 4-8 range where there should be players like Wilson, Flemings, Brown etc, they will have the foundation with Flagg along with stars still on the roster. I'd want to sit Kyrie, and AD too if he's still here, although he likely wants to rebuild his desirability for that $275M extension he is chasing. I'd just say no to both, although not sure how that works in real life relationship dynamics.
I also wonder if the AD news of him not needing surgery and with a 6-week timeline (which puts him back right after the ASB, and not very many games missed after the TDL) is meant to fuel the (supposedly non-existing) ongoing trade interest in AD. There is still only one of him, and if you look at who else is thought to be available on the trade market, he's far and away the biggest game changer. If he's truly available, of course.