Recently, the Dallas Mavericks finally pulled the plug on the Nico Harrison experiment by firing the infamous general manager who shockingly traded Luka Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers nine months ago. The Mavericks now will look to embrace a new generation of basketball led by Cooper Flagg, whom they lucked into in the NBA draft lottery, which Harrison later falsely claimed was part of his “vision.”
With Harrison now out of the picture, many are speculating that the Mavericks could look to make moves now to unload some of the veteran talent on their roster and fully embrace a rebuild, including both Anthony Davis and Kyrie Irving.
Recently, NBA insider Zach Lowe of The Ringer took to The Zach Lowe Show to propose an interesting trade for Dallas.
“You can make a deal of (Kyle) Kuzma, plus Myles Turner, plus a first round pick, for Anthony Davis. I'm just saying. The team's playing pretty well, and again, whenever a team trades for Anthony Davis, you've got to eat that extension probably… just, Giannis and AD? OK, I can get with that,” said Lowe, per NBA Courtside on X, formerly Twitter.
An interesting proposition
The Milwaukee Bucks have been playing some solid basketball this year, not looking like the Eastern Conference pushovers that many expected them to be. With so many injuries riddling the conference, it would make sense for the Bucks to fully push their chips to the center of the table in hopes of acquiring another star to pair with Antetokounmpo.
The only problem would be that there is little to nothing in the way of perimeter shooting with Davis and Antetokounmpo on the floor together, which isn't tenable from your best two players (just ask the Orlando Magic).
There's also the question of Davis' health, which has already been an issue this year for the Mavericks.
Whatever route they choose to go, it certainly wouldn't be a surprise to see the Mavericks explore some trade options in the coming weeks.
