12-10-2022, 01:27 PM
(12-10-2022, 12:29 PM)Mavs2021 Wrote: Won´t happen. If they traded Wood, that would make the team worse, and that´s not something Cuban does ever. He can´t "lose a trade". Maybe you are able to move a package of Wood + THJ/Dinwiddie for an expiring contract, but that would mean to accept that this is a developmental year.
But Cuban simply has no interest in
Doncic
Hardy
Green
DFS
Wembanyama
and a great cap structure. He´d rather win 44 games and get bounced in the play-in. That´s Cuban vision.
I'm guessing you were pushing this same tanking crap last season at this time. Only at that time Luka was not playing at an MVP level, KP was disgruntled and oft injured, Brunson hadn't broken out and the whole team was playing like crap. We ended up in the WCF. I'm not saying that is going to happen this year, but honestly the situation looks less bleak now than it did then. With an MVP candidate you never know what can happen.
I can't think of a better way to piss off Luka than to dump all of our quality veterans for limited assets, struggle the rest of the season and probably miss the playoffs but don't get anywhere near Wembanyama underwhelm in free agency (as they have done for their entire existance) and take years just to get back to where they were.
There are Wood trades that could make them potentially better (like maybe the Collins trade) but it would likely require them to take on longer term salary. I'm just not sure Cuban is willing to do that.