(05-18-2026, 10:28 AM)mvossman Wrote: If by this you mean trading down, I think its probably not going to happen for the same reason that some folks want to do it. This draft is so deep it does not make sense to trade up. The OKC rumor was never that they wanted to move up, it was that they wanted to trade into a future draft, and knowing Presti the asking price is going to be high. We finally have an FO that I'm not worried will get fleeced, but I still wouldn't want to trade with Presti.
I think there are ways to acquire picks. I'm not going to spend time imagining ways to do it. Like you, I have some faith that our FO will explore every possibility to make this a winning draft. If it doesn't happen, the optimist in me will believe the options were exhausted. This will be Masai's first draft in the Maverick's organization, and Schmitz's first real act as a GM. I would expect this FO to reach as far and as deep as they can to make this a memorable draft for the Mavericks organization.