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I don’t think he’ll be worth $27M next year, but there is a good chance he’s worth $25M in year 3 and 4 of the contract. However, the Mavs would have had to best that offer to retain him. Depends on the day for me. I go back and forth on should we have just paid him or let him go. Not getting anything for him is terrible, terrible asset management no matter how you slice it though.

Value is a hard one for me to wrap my head around these days for sure.  I think we need to keep in mind that we are a bottom tier destination city/organization and we will always need to overpay.  Jalen at north of 25m might not be a highly attractive trade piece but I also don't think it makes him a negative asset either.