NBA Reporter Proposes Outrageous Draymond Green Trade Between Golden State Warriors & Dallas Mavs
With just a little over two weeks remaining in the calendar year, we're approaching that time where NBA trade talk starts to heat up, whether it's actual reports, rumors or mere speculation. Here at DallasBasketball.com, we're all for people having fun with hypothetical trade scenarios, as we've enjoyed our fair share of piecing together trades we believe could work over the years.
That being said, though, there has to be some sort of rational reasoning on both sides of the trade coin for a scenario to make sense, and a recent trade proposal by an NBA reporter sending Golden State Warriors controversial forward Draymond Green to the Dallas Mavericks severely lacks that.
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Here was the full proposal posted to X, formerly Twitter, by CBS Sports' Sam Quinn: Mavs receive: Draymond Green. Warriors receive: Dereck Lively II, Tim Hardaway Jr. and a "lightly protected" first-round pick. After asking his audience, "who says no?" ... 91.2 percent of more that 20,000 voters selected "Mavericks."
With all due respect to Quinn, we're going to go out on a limb and say he probably hasn't been keeping close tabs on the Mavs this season. Dallas is 15-8, good for third-place in the West, and the production of 19-year-old big man Lively, who is the perfect fit next to Luka Doncic, and Sixth Man of the Year frontrunner Hardaway, has played a big role in that.
In the hypothetical deal listed above, the Mavs would essentially be trading away a potential franchise-caliber center, an efficient 18-points-per-game bench scorer and a first-round pick for a player that will turn 34 years old this season and gets ejected/suspended for on-court hostile acts on a regular basis.
On Tuesday, Green, who was already suspended for five games earlier this season for putting Minnesota Timberwolves center Rudy Gobert in a chokehold, got himself into more trouble by punching Phoenix Suns big man Jusuf Nurkic. ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski reported on Wendnesday that the NBA has decided to suspend Green indefinitely.
In theory, would Green's style of play fit in well with Dallas' star backcourt of Doncic and Kyrie Irving? Of course it would. However, the Mavs are on the upswing with a handful of solid, talented young pieces who don't add unnecessary drama into the mix. Seven months ago, this idea probably would've piqued more interest, but that ship has sailed ... that is, unless Golden State decides to move on from Green in a salary-dump type of deal.
