arkuo wrote:Dallas needs to give even more playing time to Lively next season to prove he can be healthy before giving him a bigger contract. You cant load manage a 20 year old kid IMO. If he can only play 40 games a year at 20 years of age then there is no use signing him to a big payday.
Well Gafford will be gone after next year or traded this off season, Mavs can't pay all of them. So Lively will naturally see increase in his minutes then and he's still on a rookie contract for 2 more years.
Though, it's hard to trust this new Mavs FO to make the right decisions anymore. How they fumbled Brunson is absolutely wild. And how Cuban lied about it and only when proven he was a liar he admitted his mistakes. Nico is the same snake as Cuban was, so anything Mavs say about the future, i'll wait until i actually see it.