Trade & Free Agency 2026/2027

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At the risk of doing another Dingus Pingus trade of rushing to find a wingman for your up and coming superstar, who are the select few players you'd be opportunistic on?

Let me preface that I don't necessarily think this one would happen, but:

If at the TDL Philly offered Maxey for Kyrie, but they wanted two unprotected 1sts and two unprotected swaps plus Ish, would you do it? On one hand, you land a young All Star PG. On the other hand, that's pretty much shooting your wad. (In this exercise, let's assume Philly offers this because they think they can flip those picks plus the Clippers picks and literally trade for anything.)

Who else would you consider that price for?

We can all rest assured that my expertise is in nuclear energy, particularly the fine electronic hardware and software necessary to avoid melt downs, or catastrophic explosions--rather than basketball trades, team building, monetary valuations, and the melding of individual players into a championship team--but I wouldn't do that particular trade.  

First:  I value Kyrie in his current role more than I would Maxey. Kyrie will be around for the next 2 years, with a PO, at about $40,000,000 a year.  Maxey would be $44,000,000 (or so) a year for the next 3 years.  I still think Kyrie has more value to the Mavs...even at a one to one swap.  Plus Maxey is facing less playing time with the addition Jaylen Brown and a fella named Lebron something-or-the-other.  Maxey should be volunteering for a trade...

Second:  I value the the first and second round picks even more.  Why trade off a good, perhaps still great, player and get no more than a bag of chips back?  Cuban was a master at trading draft picks for over the hill and/or troublesome players.  Something called  "keep your powder dry".  

Well...I think it's time to keep the powder dry--and use it!

Anyway...I think--oh wait--I have some warnings flashing up on my nuclear power control board.  Back lat