THE CRUCIFIX: Cato: Wood isn't thrilled w/ his role...Will depart in the summer

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Would be another blunder in terms of asset management if he truly walks in FA.

Brunson
potentially Wood 
potentially Irving

If all that happens it would be inexcusable and impossible to recover from. I REALLY hope they are better than this. You at least have to keep Irving now, preferably also Wood given all the draft picks and players they’ve burned on these moves. 

But I’m also sure a lot of Wood‘s appeal was his contract situation. They can clear a lot of money if he’s off the payroll.

Pretty sure all the scrubs were expiring this season, too. Just seems like another miscalculation, where they did not value the 1st round pick and instead made a short-sighted decision (with no long-term strategy behind the trade as usual) and will have nothing to show for it in the end. Houston obviously jumped on it. As we learned now, that you cannot give away Wood, if you tried. We paid a 1st round pick for it.

....and the truly bizarre part is that they already knew Wood PERSONALLY from WORKING WITH HIM. Just like they knew McGee. Imagine you are being such a trash evaluator that you worked with a person for months and still can´t judge their personality and talent properly. Most people can fake 2-3 interviews to get hired, but nobody can fake months of work ethic and personality.

EDIT: Real reason for the trade was probably that they tried to take some heat of the in-coming Brunson departure: "Yeah we lost Brunson, but we gained Wood"  and if Brunson had flopped in New York, they sure have let you know about it. How they decided to let him walk and he was never any good, which was pretty much the immediate response of the Mavs fanatics wanking themselves into Bolivia over McGee´s three year contract. Too bad Brunson turned into a 26 year old All-Star.