HOLY KRISTAPS: All Things Porzingis | TRADED to WAS

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Because judgments of the Mavs front office in a large part depend upon how the KP trade unfolds. 

The Mavs were ridiculed for the trade and I am curious how history will tell the story.

Your rationale for "caring" is reasonable.

But any conclusions based on KP's current playing schedule are not.

While it's fun to take a victory lap when KP is sitting, the reality - as all of us are well aware - is that teams who are tanking will find any and every excuse to idle their better players. KP would certainly fit in that category, and it would be incredibly easy to find him an excuse-a-day, or (because he was already sitting when traded) just piggyback on the status quo.

Which direction the Wiz are TRYING to go from here is a bit murky, to be sure. But in a season where their star is out and where they'd almost certainly be one-and-done of they got to 10th, there's definitely incentive for them to work to head to the bottom (or as close to it as they can manage).