2021-2022 ROSTER TALK: [ARCHIVED]

[KillerLeft]

While this is pure speculation, it feels the Mavericks did this deal at the time they did it and for the package they received simply because keeping Porzingis on this roster past the NBA trade deadline was simply untenable.

I know the quote above was added as a quote from Josh Bowe, I'm just too lazy to make that clear in this post (although I guess I just did).

This is pretty much right where my head went yesterday, almost immediately. They just needed to be rid of Porzingis. 

Maybe it's just the obvious - that in hindsight, the trade and extension were gigantic mistakes, that he's not really the player everyone thought he'd be, even when healthy, that he is very clearly not a good fit with Luka on the court, that his contract was log-jamming everything any of us could even dream to do next with the roster, that his ego and just general presence on the team was draining to the entire organization. 

Maybe there were other things at play that we don't even know yet, things that we'll never know. Maybe he and Luka hated each other (this is what I think, but I definitely don't KNOW), maybe the latest injury is worse than we think. Maybe their medical team has finally decided that they can't improve his health - they've tried everything, and this is just what life with Porzingis will be. 

Whatever it is, just start the thought process from here: KP was going to be on another team today, somehow, some way. Do that, and it starts to make a lot more sense, imho, and though the place where the Mavs find themselves now, today, isn't a great place, I do think there's reason to think it's better than where they were two days ago. I honestly believe that.

Maybe they could've done a little better with the deal. Maybe we'll hear something definitive that proves that, idk. But, what I think, and honestly, what I think might not even be all that subjective, is that this team has been needing to dig out of this Porzingis hole for quite a long time, and every day that has passed since that became glaringly obvious has been the crime. Even the worst imaginable deal (what they delivered was pretty damn close to that, I admit) that gets the healing started is a step in the right direction, imho.