I think this is a no brainer and would do it without a second of hesitation, but I don't think the Pelicans would.
I would not give up any first rounder for those 2... good playera but nothing special... we have olynyc and smart to develop... we need a scorer and a rim protector...we have ahooters.. thomas bradley olynyc hunter crowder... we do not have someone who penetratws, gets to the foul line scores at will.. he will free the shooters
The problems I see with this argument are:
1) You just said that Tyreke is a good player, but nothing special - that's true. But there is not a single player we are sending back in that deal that I would classify as a good player. Sully / Zeller would be the best player in that deal, and I wouldn't consider either of those two guys a "good" player. They are decent players that you hope and pray could one day become good players.
2) The Mavs pick is top 7 protected and currently looks highly unlikely to fall any better than top 12. If that pick falls outside the top 10, then what is the probability of getting a "good" player out of that pick? Pretty low, to be honest. If you look at the guys taken between 12 and 20 in the average draft, you'll probably find that you will be lucky if two of those guys end up developing into good players. That leaves you with maybe a 25% chance of getting a good player (if that) when drafting in the 12-20 range, which is where that Dallas pick is likely to fall at the current rate.
3) James Young and David Lee have no immediate value to this team. Lee is out of the rotation, and Young looks like he is still a year or two away from being even a rotation caliber player.
3) Jerebko is a solid guy who I don't mind having on the team, but he's very much replaceable.
At the end of the day Tyreke is a career 17/5/5 guy who can play and defend three positions, who has stayed relatively healthy over his career (he's played in 83% of possible games over his career). He would immediately become the second best player on the team after Thomas, and his flexibility allows him to play either the PG, SG or SF position in today's league.
Stevens has already stated that he likes to play Crowder at the PF spot in small ball lineups, but can't really do it because we have so many bigs who all need minutes. By doing this trade we get rid of three bigs (Sully/Zeller, Lee and Jerebko) so we could start Tyreke at SF and move Crowder to PF.
Ryan Anderson is less appealing to me since he basically is just a shorter version of Kelly Olynyk, but at the end of the day he DOES offer a valuable skill (three point shooting - 38% for his career) and having a big who can shoot at that level is always useful. I wouldn't care at all for keeping him after this season, so for me the fact that he's expiring would actually be a benefit.
Ultimately though I want Sully and Lee gone regardless, since I feel both players actually hurt the team when they are on the court...so I consider those to guys to be 'addition by subtraction'.
Young IMHO is never going to be anything more than a passable rotation player, so I consider him a nothing asset...don't care if we keep him or lose him.
That means that in my mind, the only assets of meaningful value to us that we are giving up here are Jerebko (who I like as a role player) and the Mavs pick...while the only asset we are gaining of signifcant value to us is Tyreke.
IMHO Tyreke is more valuable than Jerebko and the Mavs pick, so I say yes.