2020-2021 ROSTER TALK: Archived

[SleepingHero]

@SleepingHero just wanted to say I appreciated your tea leaves reading effort, even if I don't necessarily buy it 100% at this point. I think you are asking the right questions though, trying to puzzle through where this originated and why. 

Thanks for the kind thoughts.

Assuming the reporter is being honest and accurate, then it leaves these two options:

1) Rival execs are speaking to poison the well and being at least partially dishonest in the process.

2) Rival execs are just passing along accurate information (knowing it doesn't hurt them to do so) and the Mavs are flat out lying in order to keep a possible diva-situation with KP from blowing up in their faces.

It seems your position is #1...but I think #2 is also very possible.

I think there is a third option as well, somewhere in between option 1 and 2. Not groundbreaking I know but it's also extremely possible that the reporter is stretching the truth to make a story AND the Mavs are deflecting for their best interests. 

Breaking out your favorite scale 

Option 1--------------------X----------------------------------------------Option 2

I'm around here. I do think the Mavs are being genuine in how they feel about KP. I also think Donnie was calling around doing due diligence and gauging KP's value just in case (and he wouldn't be doing his job correctly if he didn't do that). I do think those rival execs leaked that to create interest. I do think rival execs are trying to sow division in an attempt to get KP. I do think Donnie is pressing the panic button to prevent that. 

Because of all of that, unless its a slam dunk home run trade, I don't think the Mavs are going to be looking at trading KP at all until this summer at the earliest. I could be very wrong, but the optics would be quite bad given how emphatic they've been about how untouchable he's been. And that's before we get "LOL Knicks won the trade" and "Mavs are terrible asset managers" etc. 

Finally, like I said in the KP thread, the dude has had zero conditioning. He's coming off of a surgery. We gotta cut him some slack. I understand that KP's health has and it seems always will be the sticking point but even in his rough patch he's been producing quite well at least on 1 side of the court. And I can understand the concern about building around a guy with health problems and why I'm not married to the idea of KP being an Mav for life. But to trade him right now? For pennies on the dollar? Ludicrous. It's just too early. It'd be like leaving in the middle of a date because she's been in the bathroom a bit too long. Sure she could've ditched. She could also be doing cocaine as far as we know. Lets give it a bit before we give up.