My offer for Anthony Davis from the Warriors

We get Anthony Davis.

We give the Mavs:

[B]Kuminga (future all-star)
Podziemski (starting Guard on GSW)
Moody (promising 3 and D player, 6th man)
2026 1st round draft pick
2028 1st round draft pick[/B]

Jonathan Kuminga can be an all-star, potentially even an MVP, on the right team. He is young, fitting in with the Mavs rebuilding project around Cooper Flagg.

Pods and Moody are also young too but enough experience to hit the ground running. Moody is a top 6th man in the league.

Kuminga's ceiling is MVP. He has incredible offensive moves; and can put up 30 points/game, if given minutes. He has been stifled on the Warriors because chemistry issues between him and Curry, him and Kerr. The minute that changes, and he's given free reign, he can do serious damage. You need a scorer while Cooper develops. He is strong on individual D in guarding and with the right coaching, will improve in terms of team D.


Would you take it?

Dont see the fit with draymond. Might as well throw him in the deal

Pretty good trade for both sides. Warriors are already suicide mission all in on the last Curry years. May as well double down on it. Mavs get some assets for their rebuild with Flag

I think if you replaced the 2026 pick with the 2032 pick, and made both picks unprotected, that's a pretty fair trade.

The biggest hangup here is that the Mavericks are not in a position to tank. They owe first round picks or swaps in 2027, 2028, 2029, and 2030. And there are no protections any of those years except 2027 for top 2 overall.

Kuminga All-Star, is possible but a longshot. MVP? I can't go there with you. If Dallas is down on Davis O foul of see the trade happening though after what they have up to get Davis off in a Mavs fan I would have a hard time settling for this package.

[QUOTE=warriorfan;15044163]Pretty good trade for both sides. Warriors are already suicide mission all in on the last Curry years. May as well double down on it. Mavs get some assets for their rebuild with Flag[/QUOTE]

Agreed.

But there are big potential problems:

I have a creeping suspicion that Kuminga might have a room temperature IQ, and will spend his entire NBA career, and post career retirement being a salty dumb bitch, feeling he was done wrong and cheated out of superstardom …. clinging to the delusional belief that someone whose percentage on midrange is among the worst in the league, even when he got the high usage he wanted so badly …. in the playoffs…. That he should be a superstar that takes 25 FGA + a game.

If Kuminga arrives in Dallas, mark my words, he will quietly assume he is vastly superior to Cooper, and should be the focal point of the offense. He will resent Cooper and the staff, for not recognizing it, and be the same delusional, pouty, stupid 3rd world bitchmade MF he is. And continue to play poor defense, despite being an elite athlete, and keep making inexcusable mistakes on both ends, due to stupidity and selfishness.

YMMV.

On the other side, GSW training staff is worlds better than the Mavs staff, post Casey-Smith firing. So maybe they can keep Davis on the court ? But even with that … is Curry, Butler, and Day-To-Davis enough to Beat the Nuggets, Thunder, or Lakers in a series ? IDK. Doubtful.

Sabonis a better fit. Better shooter, better rebounder, better passer, more willing to screen and play tge 5, healthier, younger

OP, you can have my answer now if youd like.


My offer is this:

Nothing.

Not even the fee for the gaming license, which I would appreciate if you would put up personally.

[QUOTE=Xiao Yao You;15044189]Sabonis a better fit. Better shooter, better rebounder, better passer, more willing to screen and play tge 5, healthier, younger[/QUOTE]

Sabonis is actually low-key a bad defender, while Davis is one of the best a DPOY level player. Davis is also significantly better offensively.

Sabonis is a good return for Kuminga, but I wouldn't include the two firsts.

[QUOTE=beasted;15044192][B]Sabonis is actually low-key a bad defender[/B], while Davis is one of the best a DPOY level player. Davis is also significantly better offensively.

Sabonis is a good return for Kuminga, but I wouldn't include the two firsts.[/QUOTE]


Low key!?

Im not sure there are many things higher key than Domas' defensive weakness.

[QUOTE=beasted;15044192]Sabonis is actually low-key a bad defender, while Davis is one of the best a DPOY level player. Davis is also significantly better offensively.

Sabonis is a good return for Kuminga, but I wouldn't include the two firsts.[/QUOTE]

Davis is a better defender. He is a more aggressive scorer and gets to the line more. Sabonis is more efficient, better playmaker, shooter and offensive rebounder. Wouldnt say better offensive player. Gs has plenty of scoring with curry and butler. Sabonis as 3rd option looks pretty good to me

[QUOTE=FultzNationRISE;15044196]Low key!?

Im not sure there are many things higher key than Domas' defensive weakness.[/QUOTE]

Some guys equate defensive rebounding to defense. I do not.

I agree he's very bad at basically everything except the defensive rebounding. He is not a shot blocker, not a guy who draws charges, does not have the foot speed to hedge and recover, always defends in a drop, and doesn't have the defensive IQ to create a lot of deflections like Jokic does.

Sabonis is incredibly difficult to build around and will likely age like milk.

[QUOTE=Xiao Yao You;15044198]Davis is a better defender. He is a more aggressive scorer and gets to the line more. Sabonis is more efficient, better playmaker, shooter and offensive rebounder. Wouldnt say better offensive player. Gs has plenty of scoring with curry and butler. Sabonis as 3rd option looks pretty good to me[/QUOTE]

I think you're still underselling the valley between their defense.

[QUOTE=beasted;15044202]I think you're still underselling the valley between their defense.[/QUOTE]

And you are underselling which fits better with draymond and butler and which one you can expect to actually be on the floor to play d.

[QUOTE=Xiao Yao You;15044203]And you are underselling which fits better with draymond and butler and which one you can expect to actually be on the floor to play d.[/QUOTE]

How does Sabonis fit better? Butler plays in the mid post and Draymond is the one conducting the dribble handoffs. Sabonis is totally redundant with both of them offensively. Defensively he adds nothing.

Davis adds at least something of a lob threat. Also, Sabonis' best ever FTA per game in the playoffs were 4.0, Davis' worst ever FT average was 5.2 a night with the best being 9 FT attempts. You cant compare their ability to draw fouls.

Let's not pretend that if Davis was traded straight up for Sabonis that everyone would call it a fleecing. They are players on different tiers. Let's keep the downsides of Davis [B]strictly[/B] as injury concerns. Let's not start making up fairytales about Sabonis being better in any meaningful way.