TDL Archived: The 2nd Rnd Pick Yankee Swap

[sterlingmallory]

Since the end of summer league, the majority of consequential trade conversations around the NBA have come to a momentary lull, and team personnel aren't expecting any blockbuster trade any time soon. That will only change if and when a team makes a sudden full-force effort to acquire Durant or Utah Jazz All-Star guard Donovan Mitchell.

Wait you mean that big trade that Skin and others were so sure was coming isn't happening after all? Shocking really. Truth is we've been spinning our wheels since the Porzingis trade. It's the same every summer: we make some ok moves around the edges but nothing really franchise altering, and then in order to keep the fans interested, the Mavs PR team (Skin, et al) comes in and gases us up by proclaiming that the next big move is just over the horizon. We spend months discussing every move under the sun only for nothing to happen. Before you know it, the season is about to start. Rinse and repeat.

Unless someone comes along and wants to give us something for nothing, ie trade us a good player straight up for Powell or something, then this offseason is over. All those super fun, clever, and creative trades everyone comes up with on this board are pointless because they aren't happening. The Mavs don't do clever. They work around the margins and then hope our superstar bails us out yet again.