Is Kevin Durant a good fit on the Dallas Mavericks? | NBA Mailbag

Is Kevin Durant a good fit on the Dallas Mavericks? | NBA Mailbag

what’s up guys thanks as always for supporting the show it would mean a lot to me if you would take a second to scroll down and hit that subscribe button so you don’t miss any more of our videos also make sure you follow us all over social media so you don’t miss any of our content or show announcements do you think Dallas is a good destination for Kevin Durant if they can keep Cooper flag so it gets tricky because you’re already super uh deep at forward so like if you look at the the Mavs current roster you have Lively Gaffford and AD you have three guys that can basically play the five and then you have PJ Washington and you have Cooper Flag it’s just a a glut of front court players it’s five guys that all can play like a starting role on a uh on any team in the NBA that play either the four or the five and so that makes it particularly tough in terms of like trying to balance the roster by bringing in another power forward now speaking strictly from the basketball I like KD’s fit with Anthony Davis anthony Davis at this phases in his in his career is like a pretty big and strong center so I like that like physicality fit better than I like KD with like a Victor Wmanyama for example i love the idea of a KD AD uh uh backline in terms of defense the ability to have Anthony Davis come up to the level in ball screens which has always been one of his elite traits he’s very good at contesting there he’s very good at switching there while KD can be the low man that kind of operates on the backside he’s the type of offensive player that they need all of that makes a ton of sense it’s just a simple question of timeline right so like are you going to continue to dive into this older timeline with Anthony Davis and an injured Kyrie Irving and uh potentially a Kevin Durant are you gonna lean into this younger timeline where you’ve got some guys that are in their 20s like uh Daniel Gaffford and PJ Washington and super young players that are on the rise like Derek Lively and uh uh like Derrick Lively and Cooper Flag and obviously guards like Jaden Hardy like there is a there is a upand cominging generation of Mavs young players and you’ve got to at a certain point pick a timeline and I mean we’ve just seen we saw Golden State try to do the two timelines thing and it it just has led to a lot of frustration in the last few years as they’ve watched their young guys all of a sudden become do a ton of money which has changed their value and trade conversations it it just gets tough and so my thing is like okay if you want to get get KD and commit to like a Kevin Durant Anthony Davis Kyrie Irving core sure go ahead but like at a certain point you got to pick are you going to go for the future with Cooper or are you going to go for the now and and I think if you try to split the difference you’re going to end up with a mediocre team now and a mediocre team in the future the guys that you have are valuable if you can get Kyrie back out onto the floor and get him playing and get him demonstrating that his knee is good and that he’s ready to play you can trade him and get value for him same thing goes for Anthony Davis same thing goes for some of the depth that they have guys like PJ Washington that don’t make a ton of sense on a Cooper Flag team Daniel Gaffford that doesn’t make a ton of sense on a Derek Lively team there are guys that Dallas can flip to bring in a bunch of draft compensation and then open things up for Cooper Flag to be able to slowly work himself into the NBA player that he wants to be i’m okay with them starting the year with this current roster there’s no reason to trade everybody right now anthony Davis’s value is lower because he was hurt kyrie’s value is lower because he’s hurt bring everybody back go into camp be a funky weird team that’s too deep in the front court and has a you know kind of a a few redundancies on the roster but just be the best most fun team you can be until these guys kind of get to the point where they rehab their trade value and when they do then you can make that decision and who knows like maybe Kyrie and Anthony Davis both look amazing and uh like Kyrie comes back uh in less than a year and manages to come back you know at all-star break or something next year and he looks like Kyrie and AD looks like AD and you look like the super deep elite defense and all of a sudden you can you know let Cooper Flag slowly work his way into the player he’s going to become on a a competing team but it’s just I I just don’t think I would throw all the chips in the bag for Kevin Durant at this point i I think that that kind of messes with the timeline for Dallas and I think that’s a big part of why they haven’t been as mentioned i still I I’ve seen the reporting it looks like uh uh there’s still several teams involved but it looks like Minnesota is becoming a more realistic destination minnesota to me is my favorite Kevin Durant uh um is Minnesota is my favorite Kevin Durant destination by far i I just think that he is super fun with Ant i think he compliments that team in every way i think they compliment him in every way it would be a a worthy match for a team like Oklahoma City in a in a series that I would really like to watch next year i’m hoping for KD to Minnesota the NBA finals are here this is your last chance to bet on the NBA until next season and DraftKings Sportsbook an official sports betting partner of the NBA is pulling out all the stops to make this a finals to remember one team will be crowned champ and the other will be lost to history who you got winning it all put your hoops expertise to the test all season long DraftKings has been the go-to spot for NBA player props and that doesn’t stop now who’s going to carry their team to the chip try placing a bet on your personal MVP to drop 30 40 or maybe even over 50 ready to place your own bet download the DraftKings Sportsbook app lock in your bets and finish the season as a winner here’s something special 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ultimately comes down to which guy can through physicality get to spots and so I’m not surprised at all that the big strong forward was able to get to his spots more effectively and knock down shots over the top but I uh I remember uh being in a couple of examples of of like kind of like contentious one-on- ones like that i had one with a college teammate when I was at Arizona Christian that was we were actually joking about it uh with each other over Instagram uh messaging to each other like a couple months ago uh but like it was very similar we got into it a few times in practice and then we were like “You know what let’s play some one-on-one.” And it was like I remember it being like one of us was bleeding too like it was like the most physical game of one-on-one basketball I’ve ever played in my entire life because it just becomes so intense when pride is on the line like that and anybody anybody who’s been in that situation knows exactly what I’m talking about but when I watched the Michael Beasley vers Stevenson one-on-one I immediately just got some like some of that like just deja vu from what that is like and uh I think it’s fun i think it’s an example of uh I I don’t think it always has to be that contentious like I think if they did it at allar for instance with active NBA players I think it would be less contentious and a little bit more like you know both guys kind of easing their way into it but when you put real money on the line when you put real pride on the line one-on-one becomes this bloodbath physical sport and I’m not surprised that Michael Beasley was the guy who won there and obviously Michael’s just one of the more underrated one-on-one players in the history of the league he’s got stories of him doing damage to uh so many different players in practice over the years and games over the years but yeah I I just I just couldn’t help but think back to some of the uh more contentious one-on- ones that I’ve been in in my life when I was watching that video

Jason dives into the mailbag to answer your questions. Jason debates whether the Dallas Mavericks would be a viable trade candidate for Phoenix Suns star Kevin Durant. Jason also reacts to Lance Stephenson and Michael Beasley’s 1v1 competition.

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