I'm not a fan of a RW-to-Dallas trade because it doesn't help Luka.
1 You are lessening current talent base around him, not adding to it. Backwards.
2 Probably 2027 is when you see a pick - there is no LA pick available anytime soon. Who knows if that's a good draft year or a good draft pick.
3 Since it takes most draftees 2-3-4 years to be very productive (if they ever do), it's almost a decade from now before such a trade might help Luka. Too late.
4 At some point (maybe at TDL or next summer), you might get some help via trading THJ or Bertans, or even via Powell's expiring, in the right scenario. But if you swap those pieces for RW's carcass, RW offers no potential at all, either now or later, to swap him for someone useful. He's negative value for any trade scenario.
5 You don't get cap room next summer from such a trade. The Mavs merely reduce their over-the-capness and end up at around the cap. That helps Cuban, but not Luka.
6 Moving Dinwiddie (in this proposal) is a team killer -- Mavs are already shorthanded at playmaker/ballhandler/creator, and this goes from bad to way worse. They need 1 more, not 1 less. (And no, RW is not the answer to that. Ugh.)
7 Would I even want RW at the minimum, if bought out? I'm leery of the fit and the expectations that he would have, even with Mavs need. Would he be expecting to be the primary ball-handler, taking it out of Luka's hands, and to get all the shots he wants to get to his numbers? I'm scared of that. But with that $47M contract, that's exactly how he thinks for now -- from things he says, as the top-paid guy, he sees Main Guy (or on that tier) as his own worth and place in the pecking order, and that's a total non-starter..
1 You are lessening current talent base around him, not adding to it. Backwards.
2 Probably 2027 is when you see a pick - there is no LA pick available anytime soon. Who knows if that's a good draft year or a good draft pick.
3 Since it takes most draftees 2-3-4 years to be very productive (if they ever do), it's almost a decade from now before such a trade might help Luka. Too late.
4 At some point (maybe at TDL or next summer), you might get some help via trading THJ or Bertans, or even via Powell's expiring, in the right scenario. But if you swap those pieces for RW's carcass, RW offers no potential at all, either now or later, to swap him for someone useful. He's negative value for any trade scenario.
5 You don't get cap room next summer from such a trade. The Mavs merely reduce their over-the-capness and end up at around the cap. That helps Cuban, but not Luka.
6 Moving Dinwiddie (in this proposal) is a team killer -- Mavs are already shorthanded at playmaker/ballhandler/creator, and this goes from bad to way worse. They need 1 more, not 1 less. (And no, RW is not the answer to that. Ugh.)
7 Would I even want RW at the minimum, if bought out? I'm leery of the fit and the expectations that he would have, even with Mavs need. Would he be expecting to be the primary ball-handler, taking it out of Luka's hands, and to get all the shots he wants to get to his numbers? I'm scared of that. But with that $47M contract, that's exactly how he thinks for now -- from things he says, as the top-paid guy, he sees Main Guy (or on that tier) as his own worth and place in the pecking order, and that's a total non-starter..
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