05-20-2024, 09:01 AM
(05-20-2024, 12:18 AM)Mavs2021 Wrote: We have the 56th pick. Spotrac says the minimum salary with no experience is $1.16M.
Wouldn´t that be the 2nd round pick salary?
Can you still trade $6m in cash?
How about Dwight Powell* + two 2028 2nd round picks + cash for the Pistons TPE + 2025 2nd round pick.
That should take us to $173M for 12 players including Lawson + two 2nd round picks.
$178.6M is the projected apron. So we are $5.6M below it.
So a reasonable THJ trade could get us to $10M-12M?
Shamet has an $11M non guaranteed contract for next season.
Bertans has an $16M ($5M guaranteed) for next season.
Schroeder has a $13M guaranteed contract for next two season.
Thybulle has a $11M guaranteed contract for next two season.
How much that costs us is a good guess. Maybe stretch-waiving THJ is the easier solution.
That should get us to at least $10M as a starting salary for DJJ. I think he would accept something like 44/4 to stay. Unless of course some dumba** tanking team Bruce Browns him.
Doncic/Hardy/Exum
Irving/Green/Lawson
DJJ/Thybulle/2nd round pick
Washington/Kleber/Omax
Gafford/Lively/2nd round pick
I definitely think it´s doable and I´m sure Nico/Lindsay have people working on this right now.
Then you seriously know more about this stuff, so maybe I´m completely off somewhere in my math/legality.
*Maybe this is where we find out who is truly in charge. I´d hope the new bosses don´t have an unhealthy attachment to towel-waiver Dwight Powell.
For easy math, just figure they are at the hard cap limit (allowing for a reasonable cushion) as they sit, with one empty roster slot. That's really close to the situation.
1 Pick 56 is no answer.The odds of pick 56 (in a crappy draft) being good enough to make the roster is less than a million-to-one imo. No point in wasting payroll on a useless player.
2 They won't waste the few assets they have on giving away smaller salary players like Powell, which gains very little, because you then have to refill the salary slot with a 2.1M player they don't have minutes for.
3 You can't trade THJ for a player whose contract isn't guaranteed because it's not a salary match. Only guaranteed salary counts.
From where they are, they have to increase their situation by the same dollars as they will pay DJJ. THJ matching trade only offers 7.5M or less. All the options you suggest yield a result that's less money for DJJ than just using the TxMLE of 5.2M.