J. Kyle Mann

I find myself just vacillating between this being a prime example of why you tank or why tanking is just kind of a fool's errand, where it's like going out and getting these guys really is an indictment on what they've drafted thus far and is kind of reminding me of the...

the magic of a previous vintage where it's like, we keep drafting at the top of the draft.

We don't get the actual true blue chip guys.

And we're just stuck being kind of middling.

Having said that though, like if they just luck into Darren Peterson tomorrow, everything changes.

And for a small market franchise, like that's the lifeblood of, of actually changing the thing.

We can keep talking around like that fact, but all of these teams, the, the, the ceiling of what they're building is changing purely based off of the

losing as many games as possible, and then lucking into a draft.

Yes.

Are they on the team?

Does the go-go need another point guard or a scoring guard?

Maybe both.

D'Angelo Russell is about to get paid a lot because I believe he has a player option for next year for just hanging out.

I mean, not a lot.

About to get paid some money.

Right, you wrote about this for The Ringer.

A year later, it was time.

Yeah, my only question for the Mavs would be if they sold at the absolute lowest in order to just finally rid themselves of the emotional burden of Davis and Luka and everything that came before it.

Because ultimately, as we outlined with the Wizards, they got two picks, which aren't really much.

And they got $70 million, I think, in savings next year.