2021-2022 ROSTER TALK: [ARCHIVED]

[jdb152]

I'm curious what things are possible again?  We have literally no assets as most of our contracts are neutral or negative.  We will be in cap hell and supposedly lux tax hell (although one of my many concerns with this trade is that Dinwiddie make it more likely for Brunson to bolt and Cuban to let him go).  It will be a couple of years before we can do anything.

It would be one thing if we traded KP contract for air and started over (although it would not have cleared much cap space).  But we traded it for two more terrible contracts, and guys that have just as much availability and fit concerns as KP did.  We all envisioned a lot of potential KP trades, and none of them were nearly as bad as what it turned out to be.  

This is not a time to celebrate.  It is a time for morning.  The KP experiment failed miserably, and the new experiment has way less hope for success.

I disagree, mostly because I think you're failing to account for the business side of negotiations and the ease with which an asset can be rehabbed. KP was basically 2/70 million on the ledger sheet. He came into this season healthier than he ever had been and still missed 21 games(1/3) of his season. Nobody argues the talent but it is a grind to keep him available for even 60% of your games and  you're holding your breath, play to play, in a series. You just can't have 35/per tied up in that & there is no way to erase that concern, for the league, in the next two years. So break that contract into halves, more or less. The dollars become exponentially easier to work with. Perhaps as important, SD has a lengthy track record for performance. He comes here, to a team with Top 4 aspirations in their conference & playing with a Top 5 talent? It's a good bet he closes this season like a freight train. What if he plays like a 6th Man winner for the remainder of this season? Odds are people will discount his time in WAS from the equation. Now he's an asset here or in trade. Much easier rehab and pitch. Ditto DB. Playing a defined role, for a winning team & taking passes from Doncic? You don't have to squint to see his 3% reverting to career levels of 40+%. Much easier rehab & pitch. None of this is guaranteed. It still has to play out but, if DAL keep KP & he suffers another injury ..... there would be no path to moving his money to anyone for anyone. DAL is a far better place to reconstruct the roster moving forward.