11-07-2020, 09:53 AM
(11-07-2020, 08:55 AM)Mavs2019 Wrote:Quote:DanSchwartzman
Hollinger projected Wood's salary at $15.8mm and said Charlotte may make a bid using cap room.
Why would Detroit even let him leave?
They can offer him substantial money, too. You´d also figure Wood would stick around with the team that gave him a big role and his big break as long as the money is equal.
Detroit has absolutely zero control over what Wood does. So, “let him leave” isn’t the right way to put that at all. They are a bidder just like anyone else. He has two threats that leverage his position. He can walk to a team like Charlotte with no compensation to Detroit. He can sign a 1+1 MLE deal with a winning team like Dallas and hit the market again in 21.
Faced with those choices, what does a team like Detroit do? Take a useful player like Maxi? Or, take nothing. That is the only decision they control in this process if the rumors are true. Also, the part about figuring “he would “stick around with the team that gave him his big break” is nice in sports movies, but it isn’t reality for someone who has lived out of a suitcase the last several years. This is his chance to make life-changing money AND (at his age) set himself up well for another contract after that. Being one of the young cornerstones in Dallas is probably way better for the second deal than staying in Detroit would be.
Dallas had him for half the summer in Orlando a few years back. They know him and his work ethic. I’m perfectly willing to trust them if they decide to pursue him.