2019-2020 Mavs Trade Discussion + Salary Chart

[StepBackJay]

Gonna take more to obtain a player like Gordon imo. He's young, on a bargain contract, and already a good 2-way player. I don't see why ORL would dump him before the last year on his deal unless they get a great offer. If they trade anyone it's probably Vooch or Bamba. 

Same thing with CHI; OPJ is exactly the kind of player they need and his contract doesn't hurt them because it's not like they're saving that $$$ for anybody else, no one is going to sign there; OPJ is the best they can do. If they trade someone, my guess is Lavine.

EDIT: Also, I think we need to keep our first rounder next year. We need another wing to add and free agency blows next summer plus we got no space anyways. Donnie is on record saying next year's draft is really good so I think we hold onto the pick unless an all-star caliber player is up for grabs.

On the one hand you are probably right on Gordon. And yet Magic are losing games. They haven't been very good, last year might be an outlier. Magic don't have scoring and Gordon is only 13 ppg, just barely over his career average. He is a good player but he isn't a big-time scorer. Magic could conceivably cash in while his value is still high and get good players/picks in return. I think Mavs will have some ammunition between young players and the ability to take back a bad contract, it just depends how much they'd want to do to get Gordon. In my view he is a very good 3rd guy to have next to Luka and KP.