New CBA agreement

[Mavs2021]

"Sounds like the draft is more important than ever. "

Both the draft, and the less glittery side of free agency.

Finding and signing players for the minimum, or for less than 5M, will be crucial to filling out the playing roster with enough pieces who are needed. Until Cuban hires someone who is a genius in those areas, the Mavs' inability to EXPERTLY evaluate, draft, and negotiate are going to be massive handicaps, likely insurmountable, in building out a roster to compete at the highest level.

I doubt it´s a problem of expertise. Hobby analysts on this board can frequently identify buy-low targets. I have to believe even the low-level competence center of the Mavs front office could occasionally nail such a pick-up, if it was a strategic directive. It´s that Cuban´s directive is 1000% anti-draft, anti-youth, anti-upside evaluation. He just wants veteran NAMES. 

But I agree that sadly this whole new CBA reads like a manual to do everything that Cuban does not believe in. That´s why I´m saying please don´t be the first to make a trade on draft night, cause you´ll get the values so wrong....again.