04-02-2021, 08:31 AM
(04-02-2021, 04:02 AM)cow Wrote: 2021 is unprotected. 2023 is top 10 protected through 2025. Without removing the protections, I believe the earliest FRP the Mavs can trade is 2027. If they removed the protections (don't do this), that would bump the pick to 2025. I would think for a S&T, the other team is going to want that pick to come before 2027 and maybe before 2025. You'd probably need to figure out a way to get a FRP from someone else which means sending out Jalen or Maxi. I guess you could add KP to that list of names but that really starts to complicate things.
Also a thing we need to understand is that future firsts are first and foremost a store of value, like Bitcoin or currency. So ya a pick way into the future seems less valuable than one in the near-term but it's not always the case. For one, a future pick is one that takes up no salary or roster spots. Some teams have too many young players as it is. They don't need more guys taking up minutes, salary and roster spots.
Further, future picks add more risk to the team trading them away because so much can change during that time. For the Mavs if they had a pick next year you can predict with a fair degree of access where that pick will be. For a future pick you don't know where it will land and you can up the value by removing protections.
All that being said I don't know if the Mavs will trade a future first or not. My guess is that they would move around some of their roster to get a pick or two that then can get passed to a team like Atlanta if they go big on Collins.