2021-2022 AROUND the NBA: GSW Champs [ARCHIVED]

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26 is a spot that isn’t very desirable in trade cause the pick has to be guaranteed money and there is little certainty that high in the draft. Has to be a team really looking for young talent for the pick to be worth much (or a part of a 3 team where a team is using ours to move up…after the fact).

Even though this has been the Mavs mind set for the better part of the last two decades, I hate this kind of thinking.  It shows an utter lack of confidence in your scouting department and developmental staff.

There are NBA players every single year drafted below 26.  The Mavs need to find and develop them.  Guaranteeing a prospect 3 million or so for three year period shouldn't prevent teams from trading into the first round.  

Just recently if the Mavs had traded back into the first round or bought a pick they could have had Bane.