MAVS NEWS:

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For people who care about these things, with AD gone, we are down to Gafford and Lively being our only remaining Klutch players.  I wonder how smoothly the Lively extension negotiations are going to be if Paul and AD really aren’t happy about the trade to the Wiz.

Bagley and Middleton are Excel clients.

Jones (and Max Christie and PJ) are represented by Kevin Bradbury of LIFT Management.  Those three and Tyus’s brother are pretty much his entire client base.  Bradbury was with Duffy for years before branching out on his own.  AJ Johnson is represented by Duffy.

I love Lively's basketball character and like his upside, but I'd hate to sign him unless it is a sweetheart deal for the Mavs.  He makes AD look like an ironman and we haven't seen him expand partially because of his lack of availability.  The negotiations would be simple, take the club option, see if he has any suitors next year before the TDL, and if not, let the year play out.  If he gets a big offer from some other team after that, wish him good luck and good heath.