06-11-2021, 04:38 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-11-2021, 04:41 PM by Scott41theMavs.)
Just wanted to throw out there... I hear a lot of concern in terms of trading KP that "We'll never recoup what we sent out for him."
Um, we sent out
1) two expiring malcontents who weren't very good at basketball,
2) a "young prospect" who turned out to be a future Shanghai Shark, and
3) two first rounders, one of which is the 21st pick in this draft, plus an indeterminate future pick which will likely be lower as long as Luka is healthy
4) while taking an a supposed albatross contract who turned out to be a player that has been useful to the Mavs over the past two seasons.
The only thing that ended up making the KP trade costly for the Mavs was giving him a max deal that most other teams in the league would have been fairly happy to give him at the time, but he sadly hasn't lived up to it.
So, if his return involves nothing more than, say,
1) a useable player, hopefully a starter (imho Wes and VAJ weren't really usable players for the Knicks),
2) salary relief, whether current or in the form of guys who can serve as decent placeholders until they expire sooner than KP would - '22, the LaVine year, would be fantastic,
3) perhaps one young prospect or a pick,
then we will have broken even on KP imho, given the problem of his health and attitude. That's the kind of prospective trade we should be looking for. Even if teams this summer try to bend the Mavs over, there will be more than one team offering something, so they should be able to play those teams off each other until they get a package like the above.
The only issue with taking a package like that is that, if you held onto him for a summer and can show that he has improved greatly and he stays healthy, you could likely get a more solid package. His health the first two months of the season or so, plus locker room fallout, is the only risk. Not sure what I would do if I were the Mavs.
Um, we sent out
1) two expiring malcontents who weren't very good at basketball,
2) a "young prospect" who turned out to be a future Shanghai Shark, and
3) two first rounders, one of which is the 21st pick in this draft, plus an indeterminate future pick which will likely be lower as long as Luka is healthy
4) while taking an a supposed albatross contract who turned out to be a player that has been useful to the Mavs over the past two seasons.
The only thing that ended up making the KP trade costly for the Mavs was giving him a max deal that most other teams in the league would have been fairly happy to give him at the time, but he sadly hasn't lived up to it.
So, if his return involves nothing more than, say,
1) a useable player, hopefully a starter (imho Wes and VAJ weren't really usable players for the Knicks),
2) salary relief, whether current or in the form of guys who can serve as decent placeholders until they expire sooner than KP would - '22, the LaVine year, would be fantastic,
3) perhaps one young prospect or a pick,
then we will have broken even on KP imho, given the problem of his health and attitude. That's the kind of prospective trade we should be looking for. Even if teams this summer try to bend the Mavs over, there will be more than one team offering something, so they should be able to play those teams off each other until they get a package like the above.
The only issue with taking a package like that is that, if you held onto him for a summer and can show that he has improved greatly and he stays healthy, you could likely get a more solid package. His health the first two months of the season or so, plus locker room fallout, is the only risk. Not sure what I would do if I were the Mavs.