TRADE: Dallas receives Zaccharie Risacher in 3-team deal

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Handing the Hornets a top five pick would be a bummer.  To borrow from a Midway classic, Blue Warrior Mavericks need Food Guards badly.  Kyrie is going to give us watchable basketball again, but I worry we'll run him into the ground and there is always the possibility of moving him by the TDL which would make us a bigger version of last years team.

Agreed, but it's the last management team's bummer, in a very real way. I really don't think the current team is helping anything by deceiving themselves into making short-sighted moves just to make that pick as low as possible. I mean, it could be a top-5 pick even in the best case scenario for how this W/L record ends up, for all we know. Better, imo, just to be honest about where the team is and get busy making the situation better. 

Don't get me wrong - after they've assembled the team, I want them to win as many games as possible, but more so they get used to a winning mentality and culture than anything having to do with next summer's pick. 

And hey, the chance that it ends up 1-2 and doesn't convey gives us something cool to dream about, anyway, not that I expect them to worry about that at all in any sort of "tanking" sense. But, they might actually be bad enough, organically, for that to be a topic around here. We'll see.