2020-2021 ROSTER TALK: Archived

[ItsGoTime]

Let's say Mavs need to trade Brunson because he wants to leave next season. I also assume he is packaged with Powell and nothing else from our side. What options do you see?

Here are a couple of my ideas:
- Boston for Thompson, Nesmith and Grant Williams. Boston gets a better center and back up PG, Mavs get two young role players on cheap contracts
- Brooklyn - SnT for Dinwiddie. BKN is "awarded" Brunson to take Powell contract. Mavs keep most of cap space
- Indy for Lamb and Bitadze. Mavs get a cheap prospect center on cost controlled contract and a solid wing, Indy gets two RC guys
- Clippers for Kennard and 2021 FRP. Not really sure if this one makes sense for Clippers. They would have to love Brunson, I doubt they have any need for Powell
- Sacramento for Hield. Mavs get a shooter and keep a lot of cap space, Sacramento saves enough cap to resign Holmes and gets a third guard

My thought was going the opposite direction. Adding money for us in this offseason. Looking at teams like OKC or NY to totally rid us of Powell's contract by adding JB as the prize. Something like Knox for Powell and JB. Roby for JB and Powell or something like that with OKC.

I think the difference in Powell's contract is a second rounder (he's still a useful player, just not worth the contract for 2 more years), so adding JB into the mix still leaves value to be realized.

Hield isn't a bad idea if we aren't going to resign THJ (although if we can resign THJ to a $12-13M contract, I'd rather have him), but his contract is worse than Powell's so they would need to add lots more to that trade IMO.

The rest of the trades are lower than optimal realized value IMO, maybe the IND one is good. Dinwiddie isn't too bad either. The Boston one just completely hampers us in many ways unless those prospects are really good (and that still hampers us cause we currently have 3 prospects on the team), which I don't think is the case although don't know enough to know.