TDL Archived: The 2nd Rnd Pick Yankee Swap

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I don't see how making MIA better in such a deal DR-THJ is a plus for Mavs. It sure doesn't look like that deal improves the Mavs nor enhances their future.

The trade as proposed doesn't free up the 2025 pick for a TDL deal. You'd have to land a pick in not only 2023 but also 2024 and 2025. The only other avenue is to unlock the pick to NY. I really think the Mavs will just wait, rather than deal with all that. 

And it's not like they need to do that in general. It has no value to them at all unless they have a blockbuster TDL deal (right now, about to happen) that is on the table and only contingent on a 2023-25-27 set of picks without contingencies.

I agree. Pretty convinced that if this is/was a real thing, the interest from the Mavs' side has to be about Lowry (or maybe Herro). No idea whether or not Miami would be interested, but I just can't see the Mavs taking on Duncan Robinson. He is the exact opposite of what they need in pretty much every way. 

Another shooter who can't shoot (nope)
A less flexible cap sheet, from a position where they're already paying tax (nope)
A new candidate for "worst defender on the team" (nope)
Less ball-handling than they have now with Hardaway (nope)

I can almost see it from an angle of draft capital accumulation, but that assumes that Miami views this swap as worth a significant piece of capital (which would quash any hopes we might have of salvaging Robinson into anything remotely usable) and it also assumes that Dallas would be willing to sell a rotation player, not get one back (Robinson probably wouldn't even play after about a month here) and make the way forward even tougher, flexibility wise, all for the sake of draft capital. This type of move would only make sense if it were the precursor to 1-3 others just like it, and we're talking about Mark Cuban who has basically never, ever thought like that. I can't see it, personally. 

I CAN see the Mavs, desperate to find a replacement for Brunson right now, this season, viewing either Lowry or Herro as that guy and trying to talk Miami into taking Hardaway back as the basis of a trade, probably with draft capital going the other direction. I don't think it will happen, but that makes much more sense to me.