02-04-2023, 03:45 PM
Thing is with all the Mavs fans' cynicism is that it's a matter of 1) knowing how great Luka is, and 2) knowing he's very likely to force his way out if things don't improve bigtime in the next year or two.
All they have to do is either go ridiculously all-in right now, or more reasonably all-in this summer on a trade for Siakam, and with even minimally-competent roster-building around that, it probably results in Luka staying. Two things could prevent this - 1) Siakam gets traded to someone else right now, or 2) the Mavs burn their true assets (Green, firsts, arguably DFS) on something stupid now.
All they have to do is either go ridiculously all-in right now, or more reasonably all-in this summer on a trade for Siakam, and with even minimally-competent roster-building around that, it probably results in Luka staying. Two things could prevent this - 1) Siakam gets traded to someone else right now, or 2) the Mavs burn their true assets (Green, firsts, arguably DFS) on something stupid now.