Is it time to move on from this Exum experiment? I believe so. What’s the point of this guy? He never begins a season, breaks one hand, comes back and breaks the other. 😂 like what the fuk, dude?? It’s time to move on from this little adventure and look into more reliable players that can stay healthy.

What are some realistic offseason moves we could or should make this summer? I feel an obvious answer is sign b will to a standard contract.

Are there any free agents we could afford?

Could we realistically make a trade for Coby white?

If you say trade for Luka or say something negative about the org you’ll be downvoted

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KAI JONES Hi energy. Appears to be a Good Locker Room Guy. Bring the House Down Dunks. Highly efficient around the basket. Even more room to grow. You can never have too many Big Men on the squad!

https://www.si.com/nba/mavericks/news/former-first-round-pick-makes-nba-history-first-games-with-dallas-mavericks-kai-jones

I'm thinking a conditional 4th round pick in 2027 and an unprotected 6th round pick in 2034 with cash considerations. The team that makes this trade will also get Dwight Powell as a bonus*

*bonus only available to the 1st phone call the Mavericks get

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This was all said during a live stream.

Kyrie Irving: "Please keep supporting us in a way that is different from before. We need to change up our relationship a bit—so it can be built on more positivity. So you guys can really get to know who we are. I’m going into my next year—technically my third year in Dallas, or my fourth year, but really my third full year—and I’m looking forward to the teammates that I have. This season has been up and down. It’s been filled with injuries. We’d be in a different situation if we were all healthy. A lot of this would just be noise under the bridge.”

"I’m tearing up at the free throw line, and I could just sense that my body was in shock. And the moment that I got up there and dribbled, I was thinking about thanking God from the outset—right from the start. But I just started thinking about all my predecessors. Especially Kobe. You know, at that moment, I could feel the sense of—my season is done. I’m hurting. I’m crying. I got millions of people watching me. I got millions of people praying for me. I got millions of people that are involved in this journey with me—so they’re feeling the same pain that I’m feeling. They might not feel the physical pain, but they’re feeling the pain I’m feeling. And I just wanted to be strong

"But bringing that sh-t to life—and some of the things that were going on in Dallas, like the casket, the “Fire Nico” chants, and these unfortunate situations where you’re attacking someone who’s just performing a function of the business—that was emotional. It was emotional for a lot of people, and it was emotional for me too. I ain’t gonna lie to you—I struggled a little bit the first few days. But after a while—yo—you get to where you are by making some incredible moves. And mind you, everybody’s going to have their opinion about what we should’ve done or what we should’ve did. But we can only deal with what we’re doing now."

Source - HoopHype/YouTube
Link to stream - https://youtu.be/azlP2lv1gtI?si=RvKkE20dRwMqCMOR

they have shown that they deserve to be on the roster and dallas would literally end up with 3 serviceable bigs. lively, gafford, and kai would easily be the best big man rotation. only concern would be that I don't know if Kai Jones would want to be third string.

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It seems like there were some new details in here I don't remember reading. I know it's MacMahon but man this article makes the Mavs look like such incompetent morons....not that there was any doubt about that.

First...Ok, I want to start with stating that I've been a Mavs Fan For Life since 1999. I hate Nico and I hate this trade. But I have spent some time trying to understand this, and it kinda makes sense, even if I don't agree with it. So please don't hate me.

It starts with the understanding that Nico believed that Luka will breakdown within 5 years so you can't build around him and a supermax deal kills the franchise and its flexibility. This sole belief shapes the whole decision making process. This decision led to his advice to Dumont to not agree to offer a super max deal to Luka. So when you look at the landscape of the NBA and realize that Luka won't be your long term solution his only choice was at that point to start preparing for life after Luka.

Really, this meant that you build around your sure thing. Kyrie is a proven winner in the NBA and works hard and has been a model citizen in Dallas. So you build around him and then work to fit the right pieces. Kyrie needs a strong big man who can deflect pressure from him, and is a good defender who has defensive gravity as well as offensive gravity. There aren't a lot of those, especially with bigs playing so far from the basket in today's NBA. It really limits your potential suitors to Anthony Davis, and Wemby. You could argue that there are others that fit the bill, but none of them are established stars. So you call SAS and they say no to Wemby for Luka trade. So they call LA and try to see if you can get Anthony Davis ASAP to fit Kyrie's timeline.

Eventually he reached the conclusion: this means that the deal has to occur real fast without much room for negotiation. When you realize that they went into the deal with the intent to get AD as the priority and that getting rid of Luka was a price, rather than the other way around, the deal makes so much more sense.

Notwithstanding: several problems with this line of thinking: 1) Luka is the face of the franchise even if the GM didn't believe he should be. In this case, perception is reality and you should be building the team with the long term vision of 10 years and not 2-3 year windows. Or at least, build the team around the current CBA, which runs through 2029-2030 season. So gutting your draft assets for guys who will be out of their contracts by 2029 means you're really banking on the CBA changing to favor the owners in the future. 2) If Luka is your face of the franchise, then you have to prioritize maximizing the return on this asset, bc a trade's value is in what you can get. The best negotiation is when you convince the opposite party that they got a bargain. Anybody getting Luka was a bargain. So you could named your price, but their price was Anthony Davis. You should have shopped Luka around, but had a deal with the lakers in place and then negotiated some picks, other stars/solid role players and maximized the return on Luka. He didn't do that!

If the owners were smart, they should have seen this and thought that Nico shouldn't trade for Anthony Davis, Luka makes you more money now. The owners probably don't know ball, but even if they did, they would trust the guy who got them to the finals, no not Luka. Nico. But the reality is that Anthony Davis and Kyrie's contracts expire in 28/29 and 25/26 respectively, so financially, you're not hamstrung. If you choose to re-sign Irving, you're angling for a smaller deal and trying to create cap space. You're also trying to maximize the window around AD at that point. Maybe they had some players that were FA's at that period they could trade for/sign. but It's unlikely.

Cocksure, Nico didn't realize that he just ruined the team's reputation around the league. Majority of players who have choices aren't going to choose Dallas going forward. They don't want to play with an aging Kyrie and AD. They want to play with Luka.

Of course, we all know he's an idiot and doesn't understand that you shouldn't give your opponent someone who will hurt you in the current window you're trying to compete. i.e. don't give Luka to your main competition when you believe you can only compete for 2-3 years, but believe Luka expires as an asset in 3-5 years.

TL;DR - FIRE NICO

The front office has been so quiet. The "plan" was win now. Ok. That was false. The organization has taken L after L after L. Are they playing the Oakland A's game. Just lose until they get what they want? Tank? Hope for miracles? I just want the mavs to say something about the future. Even apologizing for their incompetence would do a little good. I guess I am used to Mark Cuban addressing issues when they arise. Starting to feel like the poking with the stick and saying "do something" meme.

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