One more thing.

If the Dallas Mavericks approach this right, they could really set themselves up well at the trade deadline.

One more thing, right now.

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But I'm joined with Isaac, the one more thinking here. We want to talk about the Mab's trade deadline approach. Do the MAPS have to keep Daniel Gafford after the trade deadline? and I also want to talk about how the map should approach this deadline because as we were, I started to think about how many teams out there are actually sellers right now, teams that have players that other teams could want and that could get some value from other players, could actually be valuable for playoff teams and things like that. And there's just not that many teams out there. And the Mavs are one of those teams that are under 500. and as fun as this last little run has been for the MAVs, they should be sellers at the deadline. Yeah,

they're what, 19 and 27 now after the Lakers game, the Lakers loss. And when you look at buyers and

sellers at the deadline, you know, a lot of times the sellers are trying to go south or they're already south

and they're trying to get value for some of the guys on the roster.

When you look at,

and this is the thing with Dallas right now is they've went on this stretch.

Some of the role players have played really well.

Naji's taken the sleep.

Caleb Martin has came out of nowhere and remembered how to, you know, dribble a basketball.

Welcome back. Welcome back to the game. Caleb Martin. And it's like that, you know, Gafford is at least came back in this game. It wasn't his full self yet and came off the bench and everything. So I think the Mavericks are just in this unique

spot of if they decide internally, hey, we're not like we're we're trying to keep this

pick and increase our odds in this pick. Start looking at the other teams around the league and

say, all right, every trade deadline, the teams that are in the playoff picture or shooting to

go be as good as possible this year, they're trying to add these other guys and pick off these good guys from sellers.

It's like, all right.

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