06-21-2021, 07:23 PM
(06-21-2021, 01:47 PM)SleepingHero Wrote: Good catch.
Seems like it'd have been a Wiggins centered deal given salaries and wants for both teams.
The thing is that report doesn't really matter anymore. The rumor is that the Mavs approached the Warriors around the TDL. Well the old regime is gone. Donnie isn't here anymore.
Now thats not to say the next GM won't revisit those talks but as far as I'm concerned any rumor pre Donnie firing is DOA and not relevant to what the Mavs are currently thinking.
Perfectly said. That definitely seems like a trade scenario previous management would have looked into considering Oubre is expiring and that would totally fit the plan powder philosophy we've been clinging to ever since the last round of CBA bargaining. But since we don't have a GM anymore, any trade rumor prior to this point is pretty much irrelevant.
I guess it remains to be seen if the strategy will ever change though, Cuban seems so traumatized by having all those bad contracts in the mid 00s that he will never tie himself down again (other than for Porzingis). He hasn't seemed to have realized that with 5 year max contracts and most guys on 3-4 year deals, it's not THAT hard to move a bad contract if you need to, there will always be a team like OKC that will take your bad deal for a 1st round pick. I hope our next GM understands this and doesn't try to rehash plan powder over and over again.