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

[Smitty]

My minimum price in working through negotiations is to start at:

KP-OO-Risacher plus picks (with NO #1 the starting point in negotiations)
FOR
AD-Hardy-DAR

ATL stays under the tax line, and it's an even-player swap that the Mavs need.

This is extreme in my opinion but I appreciate your insistence on presenting deals that meet the criteria for a top X player. I’m not saying you’re wrong, just that I can’t get there with you. I think I could get there, that something like this is what it could take for Dumont to sign off on a Davis trade.

I think all of us are at different levels with our minimum requirements in a AD trade return. Ultimately, it doesn’t matter what we think.

The MacMahon piece that I posted yesterday reads like it came straight from Dumont. I believe that Dumont believes what he’s saying. These 3 weeks will give us plenty to talk about at least, because the on-court product surely won’t.