2021 FREE AGENCY: Markkanen wants out of CHI | DAL "definitely interested"

[TXBamanut]

Nah, once his 83 year old neighbour won the lottery, but the neighbour had no relatives, so he gave all the money to Cuban.

I guarantee you that Markkanen deal is sitting there for days now.

The Bulls don´t want him.
He doesn´t want the Bulls.
He named the Mavs as a potential destination.
The Bulls need front court help badly. They currently only have Vucevic and Bradley. 
They have two PF/Cs on their whole roster and no major capspace.

Any 2 for 1 or 3 for 1 deal is desirable for them. 

It makes even WCS and Powell attractive to them, because the FA option are scarce and arguably worse.

S&T Markkanen 48/3 for Kleber + WCS is the absolute worst version that is out there for the Mavs imho.

The hope is that the Mavs (i.e Nico, cause Cuban is still the same terrible owner) is simply negotiating for a better version like Powell + WCS or Markkanen + White for Kleber + Powell + WCS + Brunson. -->

Picture this conversation.

Luka: I´m so pissed I could only get 4th place with Slovenia, because we lacked depth, talent and I was tired again, but we are a country of two million people, what can you do. So onto the Mavs, who we got.
Cuban: We traded Josh Richardson for Reggie Bullock + Sterling Brown + Moses Brown.
Luka: And?
Cuban: That´s it.

Duffy already thinks Cuban is a moron and Cuban has done nothing this summer (so far) to change his opinion.

I miss the days, when we still signed players, because they were just good at basketball. Today they probably would not sign Monte Ellis even when he is the last option out there, cause his advanced stats are not cool. Was still the two best post championship seasons we had, when we lucked into him on a bargain deal.

--> Markkanen/White solves all our problems. We can get Bismack Biyombo and Mike Scott with veteran minimum deals.

Maybe we can pay the Pistons with the remaining cash money + 2nd rounder for a Burke vs. Diallo S&T.

Doncic/White/Terry
THJ/Diallo/Brown
DFS/Bullock/Green
Markkanen/Biyombo/Scott
Porzingis/Brown/Boban

We can experiment with small ball stuff, where we put DFS at the four, to account for the depth issue at PF. If everything fails we still got the TPE to make a push for Favours or Nance Jr. later in the season.

I really do agree with most of your post, but Marrkkanen is so pathetic on defense and isn't a good rebounder, that's concerning to me that we would try to pair him with KP.  So, as much as I'm frustrated that Cuban has won the lottery TWICE with Dirk and now with Doncic, and doesn't seem to be doing much with them, I'm not a giant Markkanen fan.

CAVEAT to Markkanen --- The only times they've played him over 30 minutes a game, he did go for 18/9 (36% from 3), but KP's worst year last year on defense is still probably better than LM's best year...  I haven't done a deep dive into the numbers, but DWS, DBPM and VORP bear that out to a tee.