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

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The alternative is to simply wait until 2021 and sign OPJ in free agency without giving up any assets. I'm very impatient to see the roster improved, but this is probably the best way to go unless we can really fleece Chicago.

This is another angle of why Chi should trade him sooner rather than later. I don't believe they would resign him for what he's going to command in FA. Trading him early for THJ allows them to have another expiring in a less hindering salary to trade at the TDL if they decide to go that route that saves them immediate money all while hoping THJ is their "Finley" type guy [good veteran presence (along with the occasional visit from dad) that gets the lockerroom under control for their rebuild] so they can keep him and move on from Lavine and get a good package for him.