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

[DanSchwartzgan]

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. 

Thus the reason for the dueling press releases (errr reports).  I thought MacMahon's line about "Paul's preferences are not the team's priority" was pretty telling.

It's all just posturing.  The only thing that has changed with this injury is the likelihood of something getting done early has gone down pretty dramatically given AD's unavailability.  Teams trying to win can't give away a productive player (like OO as a for instance) with such a long window without AD.  2.  It isn't like AD is putting pressure on Dallas to take action by piling on wins to hurt the Dallas tank right now.