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Originally Posted by CadBane
I don't think OKC had much to work with trade wise. To my knowledge they don't have any extremely friendly expirings, nor entertaining prospects to part with. Okc has made it clear that they need to upgrade their frontline, that is no secret. There is no question they are going to make a run at a center this off-season, so I'd be surprised if they didn't at least show some interest in Haywood.
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They have three expiring contract that are between 6.5Mil and 7.3Mil apiece, and two of them are players that never play (one of them, Harpring, is retired).
They most certainly had the ability to throw together an expiring contract package for someone you appear to think they covet.
I'm not saying they won't go after Haywood, maybe they will. But this notion that it's an absolute no brainer that they go after Haywood doesn't make sense to me. Haywood isn't the type of player that is going to be a team's primary focus heading into an offseason, especially THIS offseason.
I'll just restate: I'll be absolutely shocked if Haywood isn't re-signed, assuming the Mavs still want him back this summer. In fact if you made me choose, I'd put money on Haywood being back before I would Butler.