To call Monday’s report about Kyrie Irving asking the Mavericks to trade for LeBron James illogical would be quite the understatement. The Lakers aren’t trading LeBron and if they are, it won’t be to Dallas.
There are numerous reasons for that sentence to be true, but none more so than the fact that the Mavericks don’t have anything attractive in a trade. A host of miscues in trades even before the team dealt for Kyrie meant they had very few things to offer in a trade.
After acquiring Kyrie? It’s barren. Kyrie could ask for a trade all he wants, but it’s not going to make any of the trade assets Dallas has any more attractive.