2021-2022 ROSTER TALK: [ARCHIVED]

[mavsluvr]

I’m not sure, other than Murray is for sure not the player Luka is. I couldn’t come up with enough compensation for SA to pry Murray off the team unless they value KP.

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Plenty of examples around the league of multiple ball handlers working together. I don’t mind replacing JB for THJ in the starting lineup, but I think there wouldn’t be enough defense with JB, THJ and Luka.

I don't have any info about JB's view on the Spurs, specifically.

But I think a lot of us (not necessarily you personally) may have entered the season assuming that the only issue in re-signing JB is whether the Mavs were willing to match other offers. But we have now heard from a number of sources that, second to getting paid, Brunson's main goal is to run his own show. Which may not be an opportunity that the Mavs can offer. So it looks like we might be wise to give his goal a high degree of importance in formulating views about JB's future as a Mav, either as a player or a trade asset. 

I think that, in an absolute sense, Pop would love to have JB. I don't know how that would work into their bigger longer-term plans. And I doubt that they will trade for him unless he indicates a willingness to stay there -- otherwise, he's just a rental. I don't know whether JB would feel that SA would provide him with the opportunity to make the Spurs his team, or even whether he considers SA a desirable situation in general. He might!