02-11-2022, 12:55 PM
(02-11-2022, 12:43 PM)StrandedOnBeauboisHill Wrote: At first I was still a little surprised that we wouldn't have taken the Raptors deal as more of a salary dump but when you start realizing that we're not going to have cap space with those expirings anyway it makes a little more sense. If we don't have cap space once Dragic's contract runs out then what are we replacing him with? At lease this way we'll have these contracts to include in trades a season or two from now whereas if we did the raptors trade after this year we'd probably be left with nothing.
There's obviously value to that pick the raptors were including but we know how our front office views first round picks more as trade assets than anything else and they seem more than willing to wait until the 2023 picks conveys to build those assets back up and now we actually will have players to pair those picks with as they start to expire.
That is certainly true. But a smart and capable FO would move Dragic for a longer contract (teams usually pay a premium to dump more money) and keep the pick. Who knows, perhaps even a deal Mavs are hoping to reach in the summer would be on the table for Dragic expiring.
Lets just look at trades with big expiring contracts from this TDL. Dragic and that pick could get us McCullom and Nance, for example. Or LeVert (better than Dinwiddie on a better contract). Or we could get Powell and RoCo package and keep the pick. All of these examples are miles better than the Dinwiddie-Bertans combination, imho.