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

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In my opinion Porter is in the "good starter" category. The great thing about him is that he is a net positive on offense and defense. Really balanced skill set and impact.
Looking at the asking price I would give up any combination of THJ,Wright, Jackson and 2nds. Not willing to give up a 1st for an expiring contract.

I personally don't know of anyone saying anything different than this. THIS is why people want him.

Really...looking at the last few pages of this thread I saw names like Oladipo, Hayward and RoCo being compared to him. Especially his defense is getting overrated. I understand that people only make the comparisation because of a potential decline of the mentioned guys but it´s not like Porter comes without any question marks.
If you are telling me that we can get him for THJ and #31 I am all in. Especially if the Mavs can get some kind of agreement when it comes to a contract extention next year.
But some people are proposing to use all remaining assets (Mavs really don´t have a lot) in a Porter trade. I would hate to see the Mavs waste this years 1st for a one year rental of Porter.

For salary purposes we'd have to do THJ and JJ. After that, I proposed a 2023 second to make Chi whole on their trade to get him with draft picks. I believe that would mostly beat any offer there is for OPJ, and if they didn't think so, I'd throw in another second and so on to the point where I would have no problem giving up the 2025 first. Beyond that I would say, OK, we'll just compete for him in FA after he then knows how much we wanted him.

Edit: While I don't think his defense is on par with RoCo, I think his contribution to offense on this team would be greater than RoCo's. I said previously that we need 3 guys like Smart, RoCo, OPJ, Jrue etc (even adding DoDo to that list) that can be great defenders that bring different other skillsets to balance out the starting unit.