Mavs trade rumors ahead of the NBA Draft: Could THJ be traded to Detroit?
As we get ready for tonight's NBA Draft, there's plenty of rumors swirling about what the defending Western Conference champion Mavericks are going to do. K&C discuss a number of topics including Marc Stein reporting that the Mavs & Pistons could connect on a deal to potentially send Tim Hardaway Jr. to Detroit.
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00:00There's a variety of things happening between Detroit and Dallas right now.
00:19First of all, Detroit hired Dennis Lindsay as their senior VP of basketball operations.
00:26This is somebody that I think we talked about on Monday and how it felt like he had brought
00:31something to the front office for sure.
00:33Nico made exceptional moves this year.
00:36How much of that do you think Lindsay had to do with that and how much of it was all
00:40Nico's mind?
00:41Because this did go under the radar for after it was announced for like, wow, true guy that
00:46put together the go bear and Donovan Mitchell things like we were very excited that he was
00:50an addition to the staff, but then it just kind of goes up by the wayside and you don't
00:54think about it because his name wasn't discussed that much and Nico gets all the glory along
00:58the way.
00:59So I am kind of curious what Nico learned, what or how much of it was Nico versus Lindsay
01:05being involved in being in his ear.
01:07I'm honestly not sure I'm interested by that question as well.
01:10And then you pivot over to Mark Stein on Twitter at the Stein line.
01:15He sent out a tweet yesterday.
01:16Detroit has emerged as a potential trade destination for Dallas's Tim Hardaway Jr.
01:21And he added a full potential trade construction has not yet emerged, but league sources say
01:26there have been scenarios discussed in which Quentin Grimes would land in Dallas.
01:32So and supposedly the Lakers are interested in Tim Hardaway Jr. as well.
01:37What would we think about the addition of Quentin Grimes?
01:41It'd be a nice addition off the bench.
01:42I think he can provide anywhere between 10 to 25 minutes a game based off of minutes.
01:49Yeah.
01:50He's a solid role play.
01:51All he is is a role player.
01:52He's a really good defender.
01:53Yeah.
01:54He's young.
01:55I'll tell you.
01:56I don't know.
01:57He's kind of he's different than Josh Green, but similar size, but he's not just green
02:03has more point guard skills.
02:05Josh Green also needs to lay off of the amphetamines before games.
02:09And Grimes doesn't have the amphetamine problem where you're like, you need to settle down,
02:15but he's also not as athletic as Josh Green too.
02:18So he's not going, but he's a solid, nice 24 year old player on a one year contract
02:22for $4.2 million.
02:24Really what this trade would be is you get Grimes, nice role player to use off the bench,
02:30and you would probably be able to keep Derrick Jones Jr.
02:32So it would be a trade of trading away Hardaway, maybe a couple of second round picks, and
02:37then you get Grimes and you're able to retain Derrick Jones Jr.