TRADE: Christian Wood (1yr/$14.3M) to DAL | #26+SB+Boban+Chriss+TB to HOU

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I hope this silences the "Cuban is the real GM" crowd. 

Cuban is ALWAYS going to have input, but in Nico's tenure things are CLEARLY different.

Why?

This move is exactly something out of the Cuban playbook. He´d easily sign off on this deal.

1.) Trade a 1st round pick
2.)  For a veteran with a difficult character (Odom, Rondo, Wood, Porzingis?)
3.) Add in a few classic veterans that go directly into retirement, cause nobody else in the league values them even at the minimum.

The next steps wil determine whether something has truly changed.

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Wood wasn't ready back then. I just read up on the article about him signing with Houston and his career up until then - it seemed that he had to hit rock bottom (getting cut by the Chinese team) before Wood took his career seriously

Probably, but you never know. Maybe his career takes a different trajectory. Maybe hard-ass Carlisle gets to him.

What we do know is that Singh was a waste of an opportunity. Singh is now a pro wrestler and even sucks at fake sports.