The rising perception leaguewide is that the Wizards are wanting to discover a commerce accomplice for Kuzma sooner or later throughout the subsequent six-plus weeks … and that Kuzma would need to depart this time with the 4-22 Wizards scarcely even attempting to be aggressive heading into the loaded 2025 NBA Draft. The 29-year-old, after all, possesses no formal mechanism in his contract to dam trades, however the Wizards unexpectedly let Kuzma make the decision a 12 months in the past. The Mavericks pivoted swiftly and accomplished trades for Washington’s Daniel Gafford and Charlotte’s P.J. Washington as an alternative and wound up making a run to the NBA Finals for simply the third time in franchise historical past. -via marcstein.substack.com / December 23, 2024
