07-11-2026, 12:48 PM
(07-11-2026, 12:27 PM)mvossman Wrote: If the goal was to land a starting level vet guard then he would make some sense. It just doesn’t seem like that is in Mavs plans. The focus seems to be youth and there hasn’t even been a rumor of a player like that in their radar.
I agree the Mavs haven't really shown they are planning to make moves that improves their chances for the next 2 or 3 years, but how many of the moves they have made have been predicted by anyone so far. I agree on focusing for down the road, but after reading the article on the players assoc. is complaining about the second tier salary cap and forcing the breaking up of the better teams and then see what is happening to the Thunder and will happen to the Spurs, I have to wonder if the 2nd cap will stop teams from tanking 3 to 5 years in a row, because if they build a title level team all of their salaries for those stars will come due and they will have to break them up. Teams can deal with 2 max contracts, but the third max really makes it hard to build the rest of the team. Mavs have Cooper and now maybe Johnson, so I still believe a mixture of experienced and and youth might be their choice. I think most Mavs followers think we have too many wings and are short on PG and centers.
One other thought, will they use the trade exception or could they use it to pick up someone with a big contract that can be used to trade for a star player like Brown next year?