I was so fucking desperate for a center this offseason that I was begging for them to just take Lively at 10 and call it a day. We all know now the Mavs have this tendency to get cute with their moves instead of just taking the carrot in front of their faces, and there were rumors floating around that they would trade the pick just to dump salary, or for some old over the hill vet.

Well hey, Nico really pulled out a masterclass and showed why he’s GM and we’re not. He shed Bertans’ salary, got Dereck and OMax out of the draft, traded peanuts for Grant, re-signed Curry for a bag of Doritos, then reached into the darkness like the hand of God and plucked Exum and DJJ out of the void. That’s SIX absolutely solid players, all for a 10th pick, a godawful (not even expiring yet) salary and a couple of seconds. And he didn’t even have to trade pieces like Timmy or Josh away to accomplish all this.

Dat boy good. Can’t wait to see what he does before the trade deadline. If he can somehow snag another backup big, another big wing or even both, they’ll really be in business.

  • Innsmouth_Swim_TeamBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Does it really matter if they traded 10th pick for 12th? They still got the same exact guy they would have drafted anyway (Lively was a no-brainer), so they dumped that salary for free.

  • DanielQuickSilverBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Nico getting rid of Bertans was INSANE!

    I thought no were in the hell we can get rid of him and we basically did that for NOTHING!

    We would have drafted Lively either how.

  • tleikheenBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    In every trade scenario the Lakers podcasters talk about Rui Hachimura in the trade even though he keeps shooting lights out for the Lakers.

    Rui Hachimura (25) 6’8"/230# ,15.7 million … Jackson Hayes (23) 7’/220# , 2.1 million for Tim Hardaway Jr (31) 6’5"/205# , 17.9 million

    Lakers lack scoring punch and Darvin Ham loves 3 guard lineups. With Vando coming back and Taurean Prince already starting you have 2 other forwards competing for minutes with Rui.

    Rui who is shooting better than Grant Williams from 2pts /3pts and scoring more playing 9 minutes less in one of the slowest pace lineups is 2" taller.

    C) Lively 7’1"

    PF) Rui 6’8"

    SF) DJJ 6’6"

    PG) Kyrie 6’2"

    PG) Luka 6’7"

    Exum 6’5", Green 6’5", GWms 6’6", Hayes 7’ ,Hardy 6’2" as the bench