Trade & Free Agency 2026/2027

[KillerLeft]

I think he's a serviceable NBA Big, just not for this team at this time. What my overall point was, is that we don't know what we don't know. If Gafford isn't actually a positive value guy at all - I'm not interested in taking back a bad player/contract just so he's off my team next year. He's not useless. Just not an ideal Big for this version of the Mavericks.

Well, if the choices are to either take back a bad contract or wait for him to expire as he gathers dust on the bench, I agree. Waiting is better. Unless the bad contract is shorter, of course. The team is cheap right now, so if you've got to eat a mistake to clear the way forward, now is a better time than most.

I think where Mvossman is coming from is the idea that there's hopefully still time to move him BEFORE we get to that point with his value, as they probably should have done last summer, when his value was close to its all time high. Personally, I'd have signed and traded him or moved him in the Luka deal. His utility here has really only ever been on the offensive end, and to my thinking was attached to Luka at the hip.