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

[F Gump]

If we can trust Cuban that tells us a lot about the way they viewed him and his role. He wasn't the 2nd or 3rd option. He was just one of many guys next to Luka. Replaced by two guys that might be a better fit.

MC's comments are quite revelatory - but not in the way he would like them to be.

I don't take at face value anything MC said. There is always a layer of fact, but it's going to be lathered with all the PR he can spin.

He's talking up KP big-time, but I would bet all of that is tied to the fact that the Wiz haven't cleared KP through the physical. It would be easy for Was to say KP flunked it, if they want to, for any reason (or no reason at all), because it's a completely arbitrary standard of whether KP's health is "what we expected."

That MC is talking up KP so much at this point should tell us that the Mavs are still scared to death the trade won't go through, and were incredibly desperate to trade him. Not the opposite.

That should tell us some things we probably didn't realize about KP's anticipated health, as well as how much the Mavs wanted/needed him on this roster.