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[Jmaciscool]

There’s risk trading for a player. Risk that the player you acquire doesn’t perform or doesn’t fit or isn’t available. Also risk that the player you trade blossoms and causes your fan base to live with constant, vocal regret that you didn’t keep him.


There’s risk drafting a player. Marvin Bagley had some great highlights in college!
…but Jokic has done okay for himself.

There’s risk in standing pat. You can miss opportunities to get good players. Or fail to dump players when they have high value.

Maybe these recent moves will pay off. Maybe they won’t. Or maybe we won’t really ever know, because we can’t know what MIGHT have happened if they had held.

All we can do is move forward, and hope for the best.

Yep, I just mean that some player risks are greater than others.  To me, trading for a player like Ayton (max contract, known motivation issues, lackluster play, etc) is so much more risk than what I'd want the Mavs to do, so I'm glad they didn't end up with him.  (Thanks, Blazers!)