Time to bring this back. Right now (well, maybe) the Mavs can still get premium value for Dirk and Kidd. A deal like this means only a year or two out of the playoffs and then the team is strong again.
The alternative is 3 or 4 more years of struggling to get in the playoffs and then hoping to win a game in the first round. Then Dirk and Kidd are gone and it's lottery hell for most of a decade.
Other than Dirk and Kidd, the Mavs have plenty of nothing. Nobody gives you anything useful for Terry or Dampier or Stackhouse. The Mavs only have one first round draft choice in the next three years and no room under the cap to sign free agents. You might get equal value for Howard--but that still leaves with either Howard or his equivalent. Even Jerry Stackhouse won't play forever.
Think of this deal as a last humanitarian gesture to let Dirk and Kidd have a chance at that NBA championship.
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