02-13-2022, 07:45 PM
(02-13-2022, 07:12 PM)Chicagojk Wrote: I would have preferred the Raptors trade although I would have been worried to see KP there under their leadership. Even if the package was Dragic, filler and a protected first. I would have preferred that package. So it is good to know this wasn't a decision the Mavs had to make, supposedly.
Although in reality waiting may have been the best route. I wonder if the Mavs were walking on egg shells scared crazy that he was such an injury risk that they couldn't wait to move him. Or if they just decided, yes he is injured a lot but we don't view him as a fit here. Or maybe it was both.
It will be interesting if he can stay healthy to finish the season. If not, there may not have been any offers. If he can, you can make a case a better deal would have been available this offseason.
The Mavs will also be judged on the players they picked up too.
It should be interesting to re-visit this trade in 4-5 months.
Agree on both points:
1) the raptors deal would have been much better - it would have provided immediate financial relief as well as ADDED an asset rather than, well, the opposite
2) the only thing that really makes sense in the deal that was done is that the Mavs hit the big red panic button and decided that this was their last chance to get out of KPs deal