DAL OFFSEASON: Trade & FA | Mavs "mostly done...but you never know."

[khaled1987]

AD,Lebron, Kawhi,PG, Oladipo,Derozen,Gobert,Adams and may be even Jrue will be free agents in 2021 most likely.

AD, LeBron, Kawhi and PG most likely WON'T be free agents in 2021. Gobert is a bad fit and Adams is a dinosaur far from a max player. DeRozan is far from max player too. This leaves you with Oladipo and all the doubts if he really is a max player. Jrue will most likely be traded this season (and then resigned) or he stays put.

2nd tier guys we can easily sign, even if we add full MLE this season and change Wright+Jackson for someone that has 2021 salary left on his contract.

Conclusion again - having 2021 flexibility as number 1 strategy is not smart. Number 1 strategy should be improve as much as possible this season while keeping the core.

-Derozen (and other names) are guys we can add with another player, may be our own THJ.
-AD,Kawhi, Lebron and PG are almost certain to be FA, whether they change teams are another question. Cap situation "might"change things if it decreased significantly that they lose ton of money if they don't opt in. Otherwise they need to fire agents if they are not free agents in 2021. 

-2nd tier guys won't come for MLE, so you still need to keep cap space. Now, if we are talking about taking MLE from it, that is ok. But ton of proposed trades will make us with zero cap space in 2021. And basically shooting ourselves in the foot if some of those names were ready to play here. 

-Just because 2021 strategy is criticizable  (it surely is) doesn't mean other option is automatically good. Especially when other option are based on teams willing to give us players we like for package we want to give. You don't present any case for "let's improve our team". As I said most of it are pure fantasy or trades that could affect what we are trying to build and could backfire badly. 

-And I don't doubt the Mavs will take a no brainer deal. Mavs wanted to be huge player in 2019 with 2 Max contracts, until KP was available. I doubt there will be any deal that will improve us significantly. 

-Conclusion until there is a realistic trade that can significantly improves the team is on the table, then preserving 2021 flexibility is undeniably the better option.Going for short term improvements or going YOLO with trades to change half of the team is far from smart.