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[mvossman]

I can't really get my mind around all the Green love, so I'll ask a different question.

I think the question in my mind is, "How do you rank the following players in terms of trade value"?  Green, Bertans, Burke, Frankie, Brown, and Powell.

These players - plus Hardaway - are the Mavericks best option in a trade scenario. You might add Dinwiddie in certain trade packages, but it would have to be a serious trade for a playmaker for something like that I think

Boban probably is not up for a trade, but maybe you could do something with him.

In the Green, Bertans Burke, Frankie, Brown and Powell scenario, it's entirely possible Green might be just as valuable as Powell to some other team. Youth matters. The other four players are hardly valuable in any real sense. Green and Powell are the players getting the minutes now - and have the most to offer a team.

So the real value the Mavericks have this summer are Hardaway, Powell and Green.  Their salaries (and need) will largely dictate the factors in a trade.

Do I care if these players are traded away for a starter or even solid rotation players? Absolutely not. If these players are traded, we are going to miss Hardaway and Powell a lot more than we will miss Green. The Mavericks currently have an awkward roster construction that needs re-working. We can't make a trade if we have no talent to trade in return. If the Knicks ask for a combination of players in a sign-and-trade for Mitchell Robinson, and it includes Green, is anyone here going to be reluctant to do this trade because of Green? Of course not. 

This is a Mavericks dilemma... not so much and individual player dilemma. The question, I think, should be about Green's value in comparison to other players and what the Mavericks current needs are.

The reality is that we have very little it way of tradeable assets.  Other than Luka and DFS, our best asset is probably the 22 first (which we can trade at draft time).  The following folks are roughly neutral in value and would be used for salary matching:

THJ
Din
Powell
Bullock
Maxi
Green

The following folks are negative assets and would require us providing some kind of an asset to dump:

Bertans
Burke
Brown

When you talk realistic trades, you are looking to trade for another neutral asset in a position of need (like Holmes) or you are combining our neutral assets with our pick for an asset (I have no interest in using the pick to dump a contract).  A lot of trade proposals involve THJ because he was struggling with fit in Kidd's system and we have a log jam in that area.  Maxi and Powell have been mentioned a lot because they are older, near the end of their contracts, and many of the incoming players in trade proposals are starting centers.  You don't hear a lot about Green because he has a low salary for trade matching purposes and has the highest upside of that group.  If he ends up being a necessary piece to get a quality starter, then you probably pull that trigger.  But Green falls into the category of guys like Dorian who don't really get valued highly in trades and signings.  There is likely not a high demand for him.