2019-2020 Mavs Trade Discussion + Salary Chart

[SleepingHero]

Man, I tell ya, one of the best moves in Mavs franchise history, not necessarily in the particular execution but as a strategy, was to move swiftly on Porzingis and not let the Knicks negotiate with competing teams.

Covington is going to be really expensive in trade. He fits on every single team in the league, is the best non-All-Star in the league at perhaps the most coveted skill set beyond shot creation in the modern NBA, and is on a contract far below his league value. The bidding will drive the trade price ridiculously high.

I really want RoCo, and as I have said, he's the only non-top-30 player for whom I would trade more than one of Maxi, DFS, Wright, and Curry in the deal. But I'll bet the Mavs' cost to beat out all of the other teams is going to be something like three of those guys, or two of them plus our '25 first. That's a lot to pay for a guy who can't create his own shot.

100% agree with you regarding the KP trade. It was a masterful deal in the sense of how quickly it came to fruition.  

On Covington: I like Covington alot. He's one of my favorite role players. If I could just handpick a role player and plop him on the Mavs he'd 1 or 2 on my list. With that said, I'm no way touching Maxi or Curry for him. Maxi is probably our most versatile defender and losing him (and his great contract) for RoCo would be a 1 step forward 2 steps back deal to me. Curry is just one of the best 3pt shooters of all time and Mavs will be hard pressed finding someone to replicate his knack to knock it down. 

RoCo is great, but he's still just a prototypical 3-D guy. His market is so high because of the demand, but giving up other  3 ("or" in this case) D guys isn't worth it. He's not worth blowing up the core of the bench for.