07-23-2021, 07:29 PM
(07-23-2021, 12:07 PM)fifteenth Wrote: I don't think this would happen because I think Kidd seems to have some KP hope and I don't think the Mavs want to trade low on him
Agree about Kidd. He deserves an Academy Award if he was just pumping sunshine regarding KP and there is a trade soon.
With that said Shams, as recently as yesterday, reported Dallas is in on Holmes. Shams is really well connected and Holmes works with a single client agent. I get that reporters do the bidding of agents at times, but this isn’t some power broker agent. Its just Pedro.
So, is there a world in which KP is staying and we are interested in Holmes? Kidd has specifically said he’d like to get KP back to NY-KP. Guess what? KP played with a Center next to him almost all of the time in NY. He was +3 defensively his first season and +5 his second. I get that the NBA has changed since then and most presume 5-out is the only way this can work. But, we have a new sheriff in town and we will definitely have a new way of doing things defensively. The other issue is that we would have a kagillion dollars invested in bigs if we keep KP/DP/Maxi and add Holmes (and we don’t have much of anything left over for a secondary ball handler).
Like most of our other options…not ideal. But I’m pretty sold that Kidd is keeping KP and I’m struggling to understand the chorus that is singing the Holmes to Dallas song if KP is indeed staying.