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[DanSchwartzgan]

There was talk recently of maybe Gafford (WAS) being a desirable and feasible target. But since then, he has been put into the starting lineup, with his minutes greatly increased, and the Wiz have had much better results (even though playing a string of harder opponents).

Unless this was a showcase to try to get some interest before the TDL, where someone takes his much larger contract off the Wiz' hands, he may be playing himself out of the Mavs price range now.

That’s an impressive run of wins.  Six of the seven games he’s started and against good comp.  I believe only one of those games had both KP and Beal.  The rest they were missing one or the other.  

Also, Gafford playing alongside KP seems to be working.  For the season they’ve played only 12 games together with about half of those coming in this run of starts together.