The Dallas Mavericks are likely going to trade Anthony Davis at some point this season, per multiple reports. He doesn’t really fit the rest of the roster if he’s insistent on playing power forward since he’s not a great shooter, and neither are the centers the Mavericks currently have on roster.
However, the Mavericks are playing really well right now, having won 4 of the last 5 games, picking up wins over the Miami Heat, Houston Rockets, and Denver Nuggets recently. So, could they be better off keeping Davis and just seeing what they’ve got with this team for now? Bill Simmons of The Ringer certainly thinks so.
“There’s been a lot of AD stuff, and I know there’s a lot of trade possibilities for him. I’m not trading Anthony Davis right now. I’m keeping him,” Simmons argued on his podcast. “Flagg and Davis together, I need to see this more. I’m hanging up on all calls. I just want to watch this for another month because they had too many big buys. They were playing Flagg out of position. They did him a real disservice. But now, he’s in his right spot, where he’s like a four, and now you have Gafford coming off the bench as like one more big man.”
“But basically, you have a lot of Flagg and AD together. That’s like a winnable combo as my four, five. I think that’s really hard to deal with, really hard to deal with defensively. It’s great for Flagg. I’m not f****n’ with that.”