Trade & Free Agency 2026/2027

[OldMavsFan]

I have never understood why anyone thinks having a team that is all the same age and expecting them to be together for a decade a more makes any since at all.  I guess it worked for year in OKC, but with the salary cap there is really no way to keep a team together for more than 3 years, maybe 4, unless they just are a team that goal is making the play in tourney year after year.  Now does anyone believe that you have 4 or 5 stars and a couple of super stars that all of them will expect star level contracts, this isn't the 50's and 60's.  This isn't to say if I can trade as an example PJW and get a pick and a better player and/or contract and the player is still on a rookie contract I would maybe make the move and if you think he is a better fit  for what the team needs, but not just to get a few years younger.  

Since we now have a bit of a feel for what the Mavs and Dusty are trying to build, you can make a guess that some of the team doesn't fit with their vision and since they seem to want very active players, then maybe younger is better over let's say Hardaway or Klay who seems to only be able to shot 3s and act as cones for the other team to go around on defense.

Mavs have a real chance to be 7 and 3 after 10 games and my thinking before the season started that if they were not to far under 500 starting January that they had a real shot at making it to at least 8th and the play in, but through some luck of having play their first game and score like crazy and the Thunder and the end of their title chase in one game, the Mavs have a shot at a special season and maybe the beginning of a decade plus of being a contender every year.

So unless they can find a player that is better than Kyrie now, he needs to be the Robin to Coop's Batman.