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Mavericks trade pitch brings in recent MVP center to pair with Cooper Flagg and Kyrie Irving originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here.
Certain teams around the NBA have a reason to be aggressive over the next few years, and one of them could be the Dallas Mavericks. The Mavericks, sitting with a future star in Cooper Flagg, might believe that they need to go all out to land a player to pair with him.
I wouldn't say that trading the farm to land a player is the right idea, but until the Mavericks decide which direction they want to go, I wouldn't be surprised if they tried to land a superstar. For Dallas to do so, however, it might be better to take a risk on a player who wouldn't be too expensive. One of those guys would be Joel Embiid.
“Dallas is run by Masai Ujiri. He has a long, long standing relationship with Joel Embiid,” Simmons said. “I think [Ujiri] would be the one guy that would be a little more favorable about rolling the dice [on Embiid]. The other thing is, the Mavericks have contracts. They have [Daniel] Gafford at $17 million, $18 million, $19 million. PJ Washington at 19, 21, and 23. And Klay [Thompson] at 17.4. Which a recent trade proposal recently suggested was possible.
“You’d need a third team. So you’d have to bring Milwaukee into it, and send [Myles] Turner and [Kyle] Kuzma to Philly. Send Embiid to Dallas, and then send Gafford, Washington and Klay to Milwaukee. It would have to be something like that,” Bill Simmons said, per Complex.
There would be a lot going on here for the Mavericks to land Embiid, and the 76ers ultimately hold the keys to all of that.
I don't believe that Philadelphia wants to trade him at the moment after moving on from Paul George to get Jaylen Brown, as that felt like more of a move for it to be one of the better teams in the NBA, not to move on from Embiid and have a duo of Tyrese Maxey and Brown.
As I'll always say in the NBA, and unfortunately, Mavericks fans know this better than anyone, anything is possible.
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