TRADE: Dinwiddie + Bertans to DAL | KP + 2nd to WAS

[KillerLeft]

I still can´t figure out why it should be easier to trade Bertans and Dinwiddie.

It's because they can be separated and combined with other, not sucky things to make marginal improvements that don't require 5 players coming back from the other team. Those deals don't actually happen in real life all that often. 

MOST Max level guys are GOOD, and not available. Yes, Westbrook has been traded, but it's always for an equally bad contract. Even as an expiring deal, KP's deal was going to be hard to move without some poopoo coming back. They ripped the bandaid off in the hopes of inching towards being more flexible...just not in a way that signals an upcoming cap space year (I'd think many around here would be happy about that). 

If you don't want the money to expire earlier, then this was the way to go (though I hate the two players they got just as much as you do).

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I said if this is the best then you hold on till the summer and try again.

Again, I think it's clear that they thought this was the most distasteful possible option, and I, personally, can understand why. 

The deal probably would've been similar, even over the summer. 

I honestly wish they'd have gotten this over with at the LAST trade deadline.