07-16-2022, 12:11 AM
Straw man 1: Mavs shouldn’t strip down. (Of course not. Stripping is seedy, and down is the opposite of up, which is where we want em to go.)
Straw man 2: Mavs shouldn’t trade players we want for a player we don’t want. (Of course not. That’s what don’t want means.)
Reality: The proposed trade is Timmy and 2 contracts we would pay to get rid of in exchange for the option to get way under next year’s cap, should the Mavs decide next year that there’s sufficient benefit in doing so.
It’s ok to value Timmy more than this option, or to say that we wouldn’t or shouldn’t exercise it even if we did have it. But in this thread, we haven’t been discussing the cost fairly. The only cost is Timmy. Everything else is gain.
Straw man 2: Mavs shouldn’t trade players we want for a player we don’t want. (Of course not. That’s what don’t want means.)
Reality: The proposed trade is Timmy and 2 contracts we would pay to get rid of in exchange for the option to get way under next year’s cap, should the Mavs decide next year that there’s sufficient benefit in doing so.
It’s ok to value Timmy more than this option, or to say that we wouldn’t or shouldn’t exercise it even if we did have it. But in this thread, we haven’t been discussing the cost fairly. The only cost is Timmy. Everything else is gain.
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