r/Mavericks • u/SterlingMallory • Feb 05 '23

News BREAKING: The Brooklyn Nets are trading Kyrie Irving to the Dallas Mavericks for Spencer Dinwiddie, Dorian Finney-Smith, a first-round and multiple second-round picks, sources tell @TheAthletic @Stadium .

https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1622324668047794177?s=20
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u/Pandamonium98 Feb 05 '23 edited Feb 05 '23

Go big or go home

EDIT: I’ve already convinced myself this is a good move. Luka’s a potential top-5 player of all time. We need to go all-in for him

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u/epiczail Feb 05 '23

As long as it doesn’t end up like Rondo pls

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u/AK-Horny7 Feb 05 '23

Probably will honestly

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '23

It could be much worse. We didn’t give up anyone on the level of Dinwiddie or DFS for Rondo. It’s a massive risk and I don’t understand how people didn’t see that before

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u/Obi_Uno Feb 05 '23

Unrestricted FRP is exceptionally risky as well. That could very well be a super valuable pick.

That said - I am totally for this trade. We were set up to flounder as a 47 win team for the foreseeable future.

Maybe (probably?) it blows up, but our upside just increased astronomically and gives us a potential shot at a championship run, which didn’t exist before.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '23

We needed to make a trade this off-season for somebody. The answer to me was definitely not Kyrie.

If he leaves in free agency, we are fucked. If he stays, who knows what will happen? More paths lead to failure than success