One more thing. ESPN Sham Sharani reports.

The Mavericks are exploring trade deals for Anthony Davis. Mark Cuban comes out and says, no, we're not doing that. We want to win now. Who's right? I think they kind of both are, but I don't think Mark Cuban is. Talk about that more. Today's like to mouse. I'm not a doctor, so. That's it. It's me versus the machines. They're good. I don't know. Sotnum change.

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My name is Nick Engstead. Medium member covering the map for 10 years. Thanks for hanging out with us, being an everydayer. Bonus episode of Lockedapes. You missed the episode with me and slightly breaking down the Mavs lost to the Knicks. Go check out that episode. But right now I want to talk about the trade rumors around Anthony Davis because he got different factions. One from Mark Cuban saying that they're not going to trade for Anthony Davis.

The other one from Mark Cuban saying that they're not going to trade for Anthony Davis,

and the other one from ESPN saying they're already exploring deals.

So which one is right?

And we'll talk about Anthony Davis's value.

It's all like a game for Anthony Davis right now.

And I don't know which side is going to win this game with Anthony Davis trade value.

But ESPN had a report also that some West executives are talking about what Anthony Davis needs to do, what the Mavericks need to do to get Anthony Davis's value up or what they should do and all kinds of different things. So let's talk about that. Let's start here. There's been reports that the Mavericks are going to explore deals for Anthony Davis. We've been talking about this for days now that the Mavs are going to explore deals for Anthony Davis now that Nico Harrison has been fired and the Mavs have moved on. They move forward. It looks like they're now moving out of this window and Shams Sharania from ESPN, his exact words, where this franchise is moving away from Nico's two to three year window and trying to find 16 success around Cooper Flag and youth. Sources say the Mavis will be listening to trade calls for Anthony Davis and exploring his value. Health will be the biggest key, not only for the Mavericks, blah, blah, blah, and all that. So exploring deals. They're moving away from this two year window. The Mavericks have seen enough. They've seen enough. They've seen what they, they've seen what they needed to see. And now they say this is not a win now team. Even if they haven't even seen Kyrie and Anthony Davis together for just one half. They've only seen one half. They've only seen one half. They've not seen them on the court together for even one game. They've already decided, all right, we're moving on. We're not doing this two to three year window. We're not going to win now. We're not going to wait to see if this is going to happen. We're deciding to go in all on this now. And Isaac and I laid out why that is a thing that the Mavericks should do and why trading Anthony Davis and trading Anthony Davis soon is in the map's best interest. Isaac is very big on the maps needing to do it before like December 15th before the end of December before the end of this year they have to do it. Because there's so many other factors. You're on a squeeze with Andrew Davis for cap because of his deal. You're on a squeeze with the end of Davis for his value. And the longer he stays out, the less value he's going to have.

You're on a squeeze for a team like talking like teams that have already decided out. The season is already done for us. So that that eliminates teams from talking themselves into, hey, we're in the Anthony Davis away from maybe competing or taking the next step forward as a franchise. Like by the time December hits, teams kind of know who they are. Right. And so maybe there there's a team on the bubble then but a team on the bubble right now could be already like five six seven eight ten

games under 500 by then and so there's all kinds of like things that you got to wonder about when it

comes to that so shams reports that thing we've already heard that from tim McMahon we've heard

that from others the maps are thinking about deals for anthony davis they're already considering trading anthony davis

then this report from the athletic comes out today where joe vard reached out to mark

human through his email which you can do honestly mark human's email is out there here he says are you guys

trading anthony davis you guys trading Anthony Davis?

You guys looking to trade Anthony Davis.

And he says, we won't.

We want to try to win.

That's from Mark Cuban.

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