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Message: [QUOTE="NycUcWbbFan, post: 5329718, member: 13453"] 2026 roster management for Dallas is akin to solving a Tetris puzzle whose rules are dependent on a new CBA &2 — not unlike [URL='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uoFyoyBXUQ']Trans Warp Beaming[/URL]. It’s not neatly linear. [LIST] [*]For example, [URL='https://www.reddit.com/r/wnba/comments/1mns6n4/most_of_the_players_the_dallas_wings_protected_in/']protecting[/URL] Awak Kuier and possibly Lou LS and letting Golden State draft Carla Leite in 2025, might seem silly for 2025; [*]But it may look inspired for 2026 if the WNBA prioritization rule is relaxed, Arike is traded for (cored) protected player(s) &1 (excluding double-cored-need-not-be-protected players such as Britney Griner, Tina Charles or Dewanna Bonner with whom Dallas could directly negotiate with), and Azzi is drafted. [/LIST] &1 The idea of [URL='https://www.google.com/search?q=wnba+coring&client=safari&sca_esv=6b9acc621195338b&hl=en-us&ei=YC64aOGYB9ulptQP4vej4AQ&oq=wnba+coring&gs_lp=EhNtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1zZXJwIgt3bmJhIGNvcmluZzILEAAYgAQYkQIYigUyCxAAGIAEGJECGIoFMgcQABiABBgKMgcQABiABBgKMgcQABiABBgKMgcQABiABBgKMgcQABiABBgKMgcQABiABBgKSI8mUPMfWPMfcAJ4AZABAJgBUqABUqoBATG4AQPIAQD4AQGYAgOgAmvCAgoQABiwAxjWBBhHmAMAiAYBkAYIkgcBM6AH4wWyBwExuAdYwgcHMC4xLjEuMcgHFA&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-serp']coring[/URL] a UFA has always had some unsavory undertones to the unwilling cored player. [LIST] [*]But the rule is there, and [I]unless changed[/I] in the new CBA &2, there will perhaps be [I]many[/I] newly cored UFAs in 2026 to protect from two expansion drafts and [I]possibly[/I] for sign-and-trade; [*]Arike is a key Dallas asset in such a market; but being newly cored [I]does not necessarily mean[/I] automatic sign-and-trade fodder; Paige, who has vouched for Arike, [I]may be the one playe[/I]r that Arike would be willing to be accountable to, to rein in her ball dominant hero ball that loses games also by being a defensive liability. [/LIST] &2 It is my gut feeling that WNBA owners already know that jeopardizing or chaotically compromising a 2026 season (and by extension, market valuations and growth momentum in a now societally accepted professional women’s basketball league) will be blamed on them. And over what? A perceived untransparent penny-pinching. [/QUOTE]

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