09-28-2020, 11:19 PM
(09-28-2020, 06:20 PM)SleepingHero Wrote: I love all these trade scenarios that has Dallas shipping out the best player in the trade for at best a lateral replacement.
KP has the potential to be a top 8 NBA player who is elite at defense and has unlimited range. The only thing holding him back is his body and the injuries he's gotten were contact injuries. Any player can get injured at any time. It's apart of the game.
Mavs would be taking 2 steps back shipping KP out in any deal that doesn't have them getting back a multi-time-in-their-prime-all-star.
Did you read IGT's trade? We get a solid replacement for him who is probably a better perimeter defender and otherwise has a mini-KP game, an all-star-level guy in Brown who can create for himself a bit, and perhaps the best possible player to put next to Luka. Love it for the Mavs, makes sense for Boston, but Indiana probably takes a step back, and thus also takes a step back from the bargaining table. Given KP's injury concerns, that trade would be a no-brainer for the Mavs, but it's moot because Indiana doesn't do the proposed trade. While I think that Boston would strongly consider that proposed trade, dirkfan is generally right - KP has far more value on-court to the Mavs than he does in trade.