Beal Out for Year

[Who]

Lowe was throwing out there the Clips trading for AD.

Kawhi for AD

Mavs

G: Kyrie
G: Klay / Max Christie
F: Kawhi
F: Cooper Flagg
C: D Lively

Open up the floor for Cooper Flagg. Still have a strong defense in the frontcourt. Two legit go-to scorers who can get 25ppg. Cooper Flagg as a versatile 3rd star while he develops.

LAC

G: K Dunn
G: J Harden
F: Derrick Jones Jr
F: AD
C: Zubac

Yikes, that small forward spot is dodgy. You would like to have a shooter in there with a double big lineup and K Dunn at guard. Nic Batum = old man. Bogdanovic = old & slow. You could play Harden at SF but I am not sure the guard depth is any better. A youngster in Cameron Christie. An old man in CP3.

Maybe trade for AD. Play him at center. And trade Zubac for a SF. Start John Collins at PF. Collins can work at PF next to AD better than Zubac. Derrick Jones Jr and Batum are solid bench forwards. That could work well.

[Moranis]

all that comes to mind is the number of people here who were screaming to trade JB for Beal back a few years ago.

that one never made sense to me and I obviously have proposed trading Brown a lot.

[Moranis]

Davis to the Clippers makes a lot of sense for Clippers, not much the Mavs would want though.  Likely need a 3rd team to take Zubac and provide draft picks/young players to Dallas.  Even then the Clippers can only trade 1 future 1st, Also I don't really see a path to Davis for them.

[slamtheking]

Stick a fork in the Clips.

The Kawhi Leonard era has been a colossal failure.

yup.  franchise has gone nowhere since signing Kawhi.  what a waste of a lot of money by that franchise

[keevsnick]

Thunder have the right to swap first rounders with the clippers this year.

Imagine them adding a top end lottery talent to that team.