Trade & Free Agency 2026/2027

[Scott41theMavs]

I'm with mvossman - I don't see how Mathurin is all that special to pursue (yet the salary he is demanding is relatively high).

Are we just landing on various "trade for the sake of a trade" ideas now? Not sure I see that much value in Robinson either. 

I think there are a LOT of skilled players on the roster. I'm fine with stopping at this point rather than spending assets to add salary that can clog the flexibility in future years, unless it's specifically a player who can actually create offense, and do so efficiently.

I just want to say, “Wow, that’s a take.” And it’s more flooring given the respect merited by the person saying it.

I would say in response, depends on 1) how NBA ready Sergio turns out to be, and 2) whether Tarik comes over or not. To me, the answer on both needs to be affirmative for your take to have validity. The question you’re answering is not, of course, is this a contending roster, but rather, is this the best structured roster for Coop and our other young guys to flourish developmentally and set the table for the future. I think that, even if those two earlier qualifiers are yeses, the answer to that is still no, and believe they need to use the assets they have that don’t seem to fit the future competitive timeline (PJ, Gaff, Naji, and/or Klay - Martin is ballast, not capital) to bring in a diamond in the rough guy with creative potential - a Scoot, a Wallace, or a Black - to set up the timeline of Coop’s first competitive era.