(06-21-2024, 02:08 AM)SleepingHero Wrote: With the fake trade I posted using fanspo and only giving up THJ+Green+Hardy+Maxi (and waiving Lawson because there's no reason why he's on the roster as a NG deal). The numbers worked, but that website might not have the updated rules yet, so correct me if I'm wrong. 

Player                  Salary           Notes
1 Doncic              43,031,940
2 Irving               41,000,000     ULTBE $1,000,000
3 Paul George      48,787,676
4 PJ Washington   15,500,000     ULTBE $500,000
5 Gafford             13,394,160                   
6 Lively                 5,014,560
7 Powell                4,000,000
8 Exum                 3,150,000     Team Option 6/28
9 Omax               2,870,400
10 Morris               2,093,637

Dead                     2,208,856    McGee

Total Salary         181,051,299 

                                               Space Under/(Over)
First Apron          178,655,000      (2,404,299)
Second Apron      189,486,000     8,426,701

(06-21-2024, 02:16 AM)Branduil Wrote: The Ringer agrees on Jerami Grant being the perfect fit for the Mavs:


If we have to match more than his salary, THJ+Green+Powell works.

(06-21-2024, 06:41 AM)DanSchwartzgan Wrote: I like Grant here.  I suspect it would be THJ + Green + OMax with Green going to a third team for an asset.  They don’t need more guards and probably want to get off some salary.  We’d probably have to add 2025 too.  I suddenly feel much less young that I did before such a trade

Grant replaces DJJ and you’ve really only given up the Green/THJ minutes from last year’s rotation.  Klutch is happy.  They move Grant to a winner and open up a role for Hardy that should get him paid.

(06-21-2024, 07:05 AM)Branduil Wrote: I don't mind trading 2025 for Grant, but losing Omax too would sting. It would be nice to avoid it if possible. Assuming DJJ is gone too, there's now a hole in the backup wing minutes.

Luka / Exum / Lawson
Kyrie / Hardy
Grant / ???
PJ / Maxi
Gafford / Lively / Powell

Adding a veteran like Batum would be nice, and also trying to find the next DJJ if we've also lost Omax.

(06-21-2024, 06:41 AM)DanSchwartzgan Wrote: I like Grant here.  I suspect it would be THJ + Green + OMax with Green going to a third team for an asset.  They don’t need more guards and probably want to get off some salary.  We’d probably have to add 2025 too.  I suddenly feel much less young that I did before such a trade

Grant replaces DJJ and you’ve really only given up the Green/THJ minutes from last year’s rotation.  Klutch is happy.  They move Grant to a winner and open up a role for Hardy that should get him paid.

(06-21-2024, 06:25 AM)DanSchwartzgan Wrote: Sorry to jump in, but you’ve done something that hard caps you at the first apron (trade matched at over 100% of outgoing) and you’ve crossed the first apron by $2.4mm without filling out a legal roster.

(06-21-2024, 02:08 AM)SleepingHero Wrote: With the fake trade I posted using fanspo and only giving up THJ+Green+Hardy+Maxi (and waiving Lawson because there's no reason why he's on the roster as a NG deal). The numbers worked, but that website might not have the updated rules yet, so correct me if I'm wrong.

(06-21-2024, 09:12 AM)SleepingHero Wrote: @esidery
Goga Bitadze, the No. 18 overall pick from 2019 draft, is a player many contending teams are targeting as a backup big option on the veteran’s minimum market.

The Clippers, Heat, Kings, Knicks, Mavericks, Pelicans and Suns are teams expected to show interest in Bitadze.

Bitadze averaged 5.0 points, 4.6 rebounds, 1.3 assists and 1.2 blocks in 15.4 minutes per game for the Magic.



Mavs2021 is about to have a party.


Why would the Mavs be interested in a 3rd string center when we feasibly already have 4 centers on the roster?

This tells me that Powell or Maxi might be on their way out and the Mavs are finding a replacement.

(06-20-2024, 09:25 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: If a splash is what people are wanting, and retaining DJJ isn't enough to satiate our blood lust, I still land on the three options I listed yesterday, plus an old standard, all representing varying degrees of realistic:

Jerami Grant
Klay Thompson
DeAndrea Hunter
DFS

All of those guys are possible solutions to various problems, and all three are getable, for SOME team. I don't understand the new cap well enough to know if there are significant, impassible road blocks preventing Dallas from acquiring big salaries like Grant's, but if we're talking about LeBron and George like they're possible, then I'm sure Grant, who very likely actually WANTS to be traded, is possible. Thompson might not be possible at all due to GSW not being able to sign and trade or whatever (I hope someone weighs in on that, rules wise - I'm too lazy to research for myself). Hunter is a guy I like, but probably wouldn't be happy if he's INSTEAD of DJJ (though not bad as a fall back if they're going to lose him no matter what). DFS would make such a bigger impact here the second time than people are realizing, I think, and part of me really thinks that might be where this is heading.

Above the break 3's, in a long-limbed package that enjoys playing defense. That's what's needed here. No more, no less. Grant is my favorite, because I think he opens up the most options on both ends and is the best defender (when that's his role) of the bunch.

(06-21-2024, 01:42 AM)JamesConway912 Wrote: Im with you on DeRozan. He has been very durable even as he got up there in age lately. I’d add the FT drawing to your list, he’s still very very good at that. And while his days as a big dunker are mostly behind him he has plenty other weapons in his arsenal.

Going from the THjr / Green / Hardy / Exum third guard / creator experience to him would be a massive upgrade Imo.

(06-21-2024, 09:15 AM)Jason Terry Wrote: PG is simply too much to match. Grant is too uncomfortable. Even Bruce Brown and Brogdon are almost too much

I’m still thinking about Sexton. He seems to check the most boxes (assuming DJJ is fine with the lesser MLE). Hardy is the asset i’d rather give up than Green. I don’t want to give up 2031 at all. Sexton can do everything offensively that we need: drive, pass, create, dribble, and shoot 3’s. Defensively he has the size to fit. Perhaps Nico knows he could have a PJ like improvement on that end once he gets to a real team. His contract is reasonable. The price of THJ, Hardy, 2025 does not leave us with additional holes

The only negatives are he wouldn’t start. But with how many games Luka and Kyrie will miss Sexton would start plenty. And we could pitch it as “3rd option” or 6th man. He would still play 30 min and put up nice counting stats