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

[Scott41theMavs]

On Dipo, he is severely underrated on these boards. He is gettable I think for 18 bc teams aren't going to offer the Pacers a better deal than that. They can want players all day long but it doesn't mean they are going to get them. Dipo is expiring which lowers his value. Mavs will take a chance. I still think this is one of the better options out there if THJ is legally able to be traded. He is not going to remove any of his leverage on his own so what really matters is what the league and player's union decides. If the deadline if before the draft then I think 18+THJ is a really solid offer to the Pacers.

That's way too much to give for him. Look at his play the last two years when healthy, the off-court crap, etc. He's attractive based on the opportunity for double big-contract expiration, so no THJ. The chances of him being here in 2021 (if he's good, he'll go elsewhere; if not, we won't keep him) are direly slim, so it's too much to give a cheap contract guy (18) who has a small but by no means non-existent possibility of being better than post-injury Dipo.

I can stomach 18 + Wright/Jackson for him, or 31 + THJ for him. 18 + THJ would dynamically piss me off.

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Okay. '17-'18 Victor Oladipo was a bad, bad man and nearly took down the eventual Eastern Conference Champ Cavs in the playoffs all by himself. Tim Hardaway, Jr. could not have done that even if the league required Lebron to play with his legs duct taped together.

I bet a Pterodactyl would make an insanely interesting pet, provided you had a big enough cage. Oh, wait - they're extinct? Yeah, so is '17-'18 Oladipo.

No, you din't!!!

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Omahen, please buy a calendar. Season starts on 22 December. Neither KP nor DP is going to be in starting condition. I get that you deplore WCS, but whoever the so-called third-string center is will be starting on opening day. Unless the fourth-string center is (Bobi).