Everyone needs a partner in crime. Unless you’re talking about literal crime, if you are – please reconsider whatever you’re considering doing. Still, if you intend on going through with it, it’s probably best to include as few people as possible. On the other hand, if you’re an NBA superstar, you need a co-star.

The better you are, the lower the bar fo that co-sta may be. Still, you need someone who can help carry your team’s offense.

Take Luka Doncic of the Dallas Mavericks. He’s such an incredible talent that the Mavs may not need to pair him with another megastar.

Still, they do need a player alongside him who can create for himself and his teammates. Against the Golden State Warriors in the Western Conference Finals, they lacked a reliable third option and lost their second option in free agency.

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The Mavericks have yet to embrace Christian Wood as a starter and the only non-Luka creator they have is Spencer Dinwiddie. Someone like Gordon Hayward ought to do.