(10-09-2024, 10:28 AM)SleepingHero Wrote: @ShamsCharania
Dallas Mavericks guard Dante Exum is expected to miss three months after undergoing right wrist surgery, sources tell ESPN. Extended early loss to Mavericks backcourt.

(10-08-2024, 11:08 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: I don't want to be insensitive, but it makes sense. The Marshall hire was a PR counter to the mountains of sleaze that came out about the toxicity of Cuban's first decade or so of ownership (some of which I saw first hand while working there, even in just an arena entertainment capacity, which is so far removed from the inner circle I might as well have been a concessions worker, but I still saw stuff). The new owners/governor don't have to worry about fixing that, because they're not Cuban.

(10-08-2024, 05:33 PM)F Gump Wrote: "Lawson can sign a one year 2-way contract with Dallas, but thereafter the Mavs can only sign him to a regular season contract." AGREED. An NBA team is limited to having a player on a 2-way deal with them to 3 seasons. Any part of a season counts as a season. The Mavs have had Lawson on a 2-way for the last 2.

MORE NOTES and clarifications
1 I think Kidd was simply saying nice things about a player who fell short.
2 "Years of Service" is a defined technical term in the CBA which refers to NBA years and status. Years of Service were originally given while playing in NBA games on a 2-way deal, but that was changed at some point (not sure when), and 2-way players no longer get a year of service for anything (including playing in NBA games) under that 2-way deal. It takes a regular NBA contract.
3 It looks to me like Lawson's NBA deal last season was counted as his 2nd year.
4 The question of whether Lawson does a 2-way with Dallas -- imo it's not about the rules, but rather whether Mavs want him (more than other 2-way options), as well as whether he gets other offers he likes better

(10-09-2024, 01:53 PM)RGP1981 Wrote: I only want to ask... why do we not think that Cynt Marsahll just wants to retire, since she has reached the grand ole age of 65?

(10-09-2024, 03:15 PM)michaeltex Wrote: FWIW, I sorta want to see Sharp as a 2-way, although I can see a case to be made for Gortman if he continues to play well in pre-season.

For Sharp, he seems to move well for a 7-4 guy and he has a rep as a rim defender. I guess I'm thinking longer term, post 2024-25 season, when he will be in the final year of his rookie extension and looking for a payday. Be nice to, potentially, have a replacement backup for DLive that has 2 years of G-league and occasional NBA, experience. Personally, it's painful to consider Gaff leaving/ getting traded, but DAL has had a hole in the middle for soooo long, I'd like to keep the position stocked by developing likely candidates. 

Probably not a course wiser minds would follow, but I think it's worth a spot.

(10-09-2024, 03:39 PM)MarkAguirreWrathofGod Wrote: Would anyone be looking to extend Hardy or Grimes if they came in at reasonable numbers? Especially with Exum out. They are both restricted FA if I’m not mistaken. They will both be in the sweet spot of contacts that are valuable to collect for trade matching purposes. I think I would do 3yr-27m for Jaden and give him a full-time role. Grimes for Josh Green money? That’s a tougher call for me with him coming off an injury and traded twice in one year. 

I haven’t really looked at cap situations for free agency next summer, but I could see Hardy and/or Grimes getting some interest. Just curious what people think.

(10-09-2024, 11:37 PM)F Gump Wrote: "Reasonable money" means different things to different people. But I have no interest in either at the numbers you propose. I think the odds are high that neither gets offers like that next summer -- I really think both have a lot to prove, frankly, and I'm not interested at much more than current salary for either based on what I have seen so far.

I'm perfectly happy waiting to see what they show, and taking my chances I can still re-sign them if I want to using RFA control, to a smaller deal than those. Maybe MUCH smaller.

(10-10-2024, 03:24 AM)Mavs2021 Wrote: The cap is projected to increase by nearly $50M over the next three seasons. $9M will be slightly above half of the mid-level exception. If you don´t think Hardy is worth that you are basically saying he´s not an NBA player.

(10-09-2024, 11:14 PM)F Gump Wrote: Who is "he" in the part bolded? I can't tell how it would pertain to any of the players you are talking about.

(10-09-2024, 03:39 PM)MarkAguirreWrathofGod Wrote: Would anyone be looking to extend Hardy or Grimes if they came in at reasonable numbers? Especially with Exum out. They are both restricted FA if I’m not mistaken. They will both be in the sweet spot of contacts that are valuable to collect for trade matching purposes. I think I would do 3yr-27m for Jaden and give him a full-time role. Grimes for Josh Green money? That’s a tougher call for me with him coming off an injury and traded twice in one year. 

I haven’t really looked at cap situations for free agency next summer, but I could see Hardy and/or Grimes getting some interest. Just curious what people think.

(10-10-2024, 11:25 AM)mvossman Wrote: Hard to see a full time role for Hardy even with Exum out.  Grimes can provide the shooting with much better defense, and Dinwiddie is a better 3rd point guard.  I'm not sure he would get an offer more than tax MLE so it does not make senses to offer near double that for a player you have a hard time fitting into the lineup.

I would argue Grimes has already done more than Green did to warrant Josh Green money, but he had a weird year last year and based on how little he cost in trade it does not seem like his market is very high right now.  If he plays like he did in his second year and is meshing well on the team, I could see a Josh Green like extension near the TDL.

(10-10-2024, 03:23 PM)Chicagojk Wrote: well that was melodramatic

Charania] The Dallas Mavericks are bringing back F AJ Lawson on a two-way NBA contract, sources tell ESPN. Lawson played 42 games for the Mavericks last season and averaged 18.4 points and five rebounds for Dallas’ summer league team.

(10-10-2024, 09:35 PM)WillE Wrote: Clearly retaing Lawson wasn't the plan all along, otherwise Kidd wouldn't have made those comments.

Question now is if this means he's locked in for that spot or if he still might be cut at the end.