2020-2021 ROSTER TALK: Archived

[Mavs2021]

1. Who knows. He certainly is way better than anything we have at PF.
2. No, but he will sign max or very close to max contract
3. I think yes. We have arguably top 5 player in the league and a decent Robin. If we think that we are still very far away, than perhaps those guys are not top5 and very decent Robin.

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I agree. The only reasonable way I see is the Brogdon way. Basically Atlanta not prepared to match max contract and accept a FRP as a compensation to back off. It might be much easier if Atlanta fails in playoffs. I think players valuation will depend a lot on how they perform in playoffs. In any case, I would hope Mavs would be sending some salary away in a SnT (to Atlanta or third team) so that we can retain at least one of JRich/THJ.

What Collins really comes down to is his relationship with Young. How much of a trade asset is Collins on a max contract, if the relationship with Young is permanently broken. In that case it ´s in the best interest of Collins and the Hawks to keep it quiet. Collins gets to pick his team, while the Hawks can extract a positive asset via a S&T, because they have a believable matching threat. If we have to give them Green and some pick swap so be it.

Markkanen is the more realistic RFA target. I don´t think the cheap Bulls owner would match a max offer for him. But after such a stunt, you can forget the Bulls also trading us Lavine in the same summer.  But there are other options like Beal, Ball, DeRozan etc.