ROSTER TALK: Mavs favs for Vogel if no HC job exists. Kyrie handshake deal?

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It is why I LOVED the Wood trade from the get go. It was a great price and gamble on a player that had a ton of talent and was just entering his prime and for whatever reasons was not being highly desired by other teams.

The Mavs need to keep looking for those kind of deals. And the most important part: the players need to be 27 years old or YOUNGER.

Yes, the Wood trade made perfect sense. Most of us saw it as good value, no matter the long-term outcome.

Wood did come with big question marks, which were his apathetic defense, a reputation for a lack of maturity/professionalism, and whether he could fit into a team focused on winning rather than individual stats. The next contract was also a question. But the price was low (a scrub FRP), it had other benefits (clearing out bad contracts all at once), and he had shown good potential to be productive, so why not add him as a rental and see if he can help now and perhaps become even more than a rental.

And I think we all would love to do something like this again, if Mavs can only find a player and a deal.