Bobby Marks On The Mavs’ Trade Limitations, Names They Could Pursue | GBag Nation

Bobby Marks On The Mavs’ Trade Limitations, Names They Could Pursue | GBag Nation

Bobby marks NBA ESPN front office Insider Bobby do you have us I do hey guys how are you let’s go thank you so much for sticking with us here Bobby we appreciate you uh we were joking around about this but it’s also a serious question Mavs tonight with all their

Injuries might not have anybody from their starting five available to play have you ever run into a similar occurrence in your history with the NBA I think one year this is one I think we had start the season like l and5 we had like eight guys available against

Boston and like L all reserves I mean you’re basically seeing basically what’s going on with Memphis right now isn’t this an every night thing for them yeah with the Grizzlies except for jiren um so yeah I mean it’s kind of like we’re in this you know the dog days of late

January early February where you’re getting some injuries creeping up everyone’s looking forward to All-Star break where they get some time off here but um yeah this is a tough tough part of the schedule for certainly where Dallas is with some of these injuries M’s currently seventh right now in the

Western Conference standings it’s been a bummer without Kyrie lately they really haven’t had Kyrie or Luca healthy for the majority of the Season together but what’s your assessment as we approach the trade deadline on the All-Star break of where the MAV Stack Up In The West

Yeah I mean I think you hit it right on the head I mean I think you know that the biggest thing um you know probably their best trade asset is getting healthy I mean that’s the biggest thing as far as you know not having you know Luca and Kyrie together certainly for a

Small sample of games um and then you you had Josh out for a while and Derek was out for a while um and you you’ve had some other certainly some other injuries uh to to that group here it’s kind of amazing that you’re you’re in seven right now I mean that’s that’s the

You know and and I think they they will get better as things go along as long as they’re healthy here I think the the western conference is so wide open I mean now you know you can stake to claim that Denver is the team to beat and

Rightfully so but when you look at the teams up top whether it be the Minnesota and Oklahoma City who haven’t won a first round series and then you’ve got the Clippers you know sitting there who you know have played really good basketball since the Harden trade um and but you know listen

They haven’t you know there another team that hasn’t Advanced out out of the first round at least um you know at least last year here um so it is wide open here I mean the the the trade deadline is is interesting this year just because um I think you probably

Have a lot more people willing to buy a lot more people willing to to sell right now hey Bobby you do such a great job of educating the fan base you’ve lived this you know you understand it but do you ever have fan bases get mad at you when

You don’t get enough for a trade I like you know like you you’re you’re trying to like you are honestly sitting there like okay I’m gonna pick up the phone and this is what I can get because you’ve lived this you know and I I’ve

Been in the same deal I was in you know NFL doing stuff and I just you’re trying to explain to fans and they just don’t want to believe believe you oh that’s a good point I you know it’s funny I did I did the uh we have the two trade guides

Out on espn.com the written part of it and then I did a um I did I’m trying to do videos for all the teams like an eight or nine minute and I did a Dallas one and then I I really don’t want to read the comments but I was like you

Know let me see what these people are saying and I was like oh my God like it’s like I’m sorry this is who you have to trade you know this is what you have available and and I made the comment I said like listen Tim’s been really good

He six probably Sixth Man of the Year I’m CID I don’t think I’d do anything people like oh my God he’s untouchable now I’m like no he’s not Untouchable yeah but unless something really made sense and listen the draft picks of the draft picks you’ve got one first to

Trade you’re limited to what your seconds you’re not trading Luca you’re not trading Kyrie you’re not trading Derek and it then you get a process of elimination and I wrote about um the job Nico had done in the offseason where basically you know with Kyrie coming in

At at 37 million and then it gave you the flexibility to go out and um and and and get Seth and um and Dante and sign Dwight for four million a year and some of the and Derrik Jones for the minimum and they did a nice job and that’s a big

Reason why those guys are kind why they’re hanging around here right now but what you have I I said this last night because Laker fans get all upset with me also they said like listen if you want to dance you got to have someone to dance with right like that’s

The you know that’s the reality of the situation with with the trade deadline and certainly with all and then we’ve got all these new rules that are are going to come in um this offseason that are going to be tighter as far as that spend a lot um you know sometimes it you

Know who you are is what you’ll be when when we get past February 8th so Bobby with that being said what do you think are some realistic trade options for the Mavericks that they can Target we’ve heard the rumors of maybe a Kyle kozma with Washington but are there some names

You think the Mavericks realistically could pursue I think kozman might be a little bit too rich just because he’s got a really good contract because it descends those are the ones you like the ones that like starts at 24 and then by the last year it’s like at1 189 million I think

You know those guys in that $2 million range have more value than Zack LaVine right now because it’s like your third guy right like how you’re building a roster it’s your third guy it’s you know teams are trying to get away from that third Max uh I think Mark’s probably

Been on the record saying about you know you we you can’t have three max guys because the back end your roster is really hard so I think kozma’s a little bit rich I I think you know Jeremy Grant’s interesting and I mean you you’ve probably heard His Name a bunch

Here he his increases as far as you know for he signed a five for 150 160 somewhere in that range so that goes up but then it comes down to you know what do you have to offer you know you basically have you know Grant you know

Maxi um you know just to kind of get the the numbers um you know the numbers up there to get to you know what 2728 million in um in in salary here so it’s it’s a little bit of a challenge because I said there’s not as many you know the

What the plan has done it’s basically it’s put a lot of teams in this position where a lot of people people think you can you know there’s 21 22 teams that can make the playoffs there’s only four teams in the bottom um you know that are probably sellers but they’re looking to

Sell um you know looking to sell high like like like miles Bridges would be really good for a lot of teams but you have to accept what comes with Miles Bridges right like is your fan base willing to embrace a guy that was suspended for 30 games for domestic

Violence situation that pled no contest and is in the last year of his contract and is basically rental for three or four months like that’s that’s the type of thinking like front office are having when it comes to like a guy like miles Bridges who can give you a 20 night and

Play the floor for you um but there’s also a lot of other things that come with It

ESPN’s Bobby Marks joined the GBag Nation to discuss his NBA trade deadline scenarios for the Mavericks, including why they may be limited based on who they have to offer. They also discussed if the Mavs could get in on a player like Kyle Kuzma.

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