(02-06-2023, 12:14 AM)F Gump Wrote: I know the board narrative is about some theoretical re-trade of Kyrie.
But if you look at the landscape of what is happening without the board filter, this swap looks like an all-in, complete commitment to Kyrie move. Cuban spending MASSIVE money to do this, and using needed players (with trade value) PLUS a 1st, all of that is a bullhorn saying they are committed to this Luka-Kyrie path for a few years at least.
In fact, it looks like they are trying to make other deals to enhance the chance for this to be a really good team. If Luka is playing at an MVP level, they NEED to put much better players around him, whatever that takes, so that his MVP-ness impact on games is multiplied, and this is part of something like that.
Yes. The Mavs made a high risk high reward move instead of this middling crap they've been doing for 20 years. Good for them. The Lakers do this type of stuff all the time. Sometimes it doesn't work. Sometimes they win multiple championships. I like this route a lot more than anything else we've done. If we had kept Brunson AND done this trade we would be close to favorites. But Cuban is a moron and so its like trying to win with a handicap.