[Bontemps] Teams are not lining up to trade for Dallas Mavericks superstar Anthony Davis.

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  2. Why would they? It’s such a high risk. Definitely high reward if it works out but the likelihood of that happening is so low.

  4. The only dumbass who would be lining up to trade for him got shit canned here a few weeks ago. No other team in the NBA has anyone in their front office as dumb as Nico.

  5. I don’t think that surprises anyone. I have seen some people here saying that we should only move him for “a good young piece and multiple picks”. Now, there are some names that we could leverage with – Knicks if they want to move from KAT, a 3-teamer that gets Lamelo even if that means giving up Naji as well, I still think the Bulls could be tempted to make a low-cost move of P-Will, expirings, the Portland 2026 FRP that may or may not convey and a pick from themselves that allows them to move other draft packages for more assets if they decide to pounce on a weakened East for the honor of being swept by the Thunder in the Finals, but that’s pretty much the ceiling.

    And for the “Let’s just keep AD and play him” crowd, I would say some things:

    * He is a roadblock in developing Flagg as long as he doesn’t play C. We have seen how Flagg suffers playing with a congested paint of AD and a non-shooting C. Flagg’s go-to move, the move he’s comfortable with, is the post-up and driving. He is developing his dribble and passing using his go-to move as his comfort zone. Adding AD to the mix will force Flagg to either a clogged paint or to the perimeter, where he is extremely uncomfortable. Flagg is our priority, not AD, not a pretense of competing;

    * Our medical staff had concerns about a weakened Achilles, if I remember well. If he has more chronic muscular injuries or, God forbid, an Achilles injury, he’s waive-and-stretch. Zero possibility of any return, probably even if we attached the Lakers 2029 FRP to get rid of him. He’s an injury liability in a team that, if competing, could have afforded the risk to get over the hump, but not our case.

  9. What? Teams aren’t lining up to trade for an oft-injured (and currently injured) 32 year old center who believes he is a power forward and will count nearly 60 million against the salary cap for each of the next two seasons? Super shocking.

  12. This is why AD needs to play soon. I wish I trusted our medical staff like I used to do, thanks for that too Nico.

  18. I think there is a realistic scenario where the Mavs ice Kyrie and AD for the year to finish the tank. Then next season you have Kyrie, AD, Flagg, PJ, and a top 10 (hopefully top 5) pick in the opening day starting lineup.

    As much as I want AD gone for spiritual and tanking reasons, it doesn’t make sense to just give him away for literally nothing. Small assets and expiring contracts, OK. Literally garbage, no thanks. The Mavs don’t own their pick starting next year so no reason to be bad on opening day 2026.

  21. Funny, I’ve been gaslit the past year that AD is a great value in return for Luka. He’s a championship l level, top ten player in the league. Why won’t anyone else trade a young star for him, much less a couple picks?

  22. i’m hearin people want ad one day and then the next day i’m not; like who is right and who’s not

  25. You know, this is why before the trade people were already saying how doomed the Lakers were with their situation goes

  26. Right now yes but if you have a team that is somewhat desperate, they think they’re one player away. That’s when you start to apply the pressure. If you have a healthy A.D. and you have a team that is desperate you might just make magic happen.

    But that’s partially why the Mavericks are saying they’re not gonna trade. It’s not that they don’t want to. It’s that the deals offered for him for a pretty trash right now.

  27. Shocking that the other 29 teams don’t want an expensive, consistently injured player. It took a really spectacularly egotistical person to trade for him in the first place…

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