(02-13-2022, 01:57 PM)burekemde Wrote: For me consistency is the key. Does a player almost guarantee you those 8.4 per night or does he give you much higher than that one game and fades away in 2-3 games....If Bertains is consistent, 8 points per game is amazing production to know each single game to get from a role player.  The latter is horrible. Luka, Brunson are highly consistent players and we need to build more on consistency. I dont know much about Dinwiddie and Bertans. We definitely need the bench unit to play a lot better, a lot more consistent, so I hope they bring some consistency to the bench. Automatic points when they come on.

(02-13-2022, 03:58 AM)Mapka Wrote: Don't know what it says about Bertans, but it makes me happy to not have Advija on my team.

(02-13-2022, 03:07 PM)DanSchwartzgan Wrote: SD's relationship with Dudley

(02-13-2022, 04:38 PM)Kammrath Wrote: https://twitter.com/TheSteinLine/status/1492909398347374597

(02-14-2022, 10:01 AM)Kammrath Wrote: https://twitter.com/CBAMavs/status/1493224445804175370

Quote:Of [Bertans's] 2024-25 $16,000,00, only $5,000,000 is guaranteed. This means if the Mavericks ever waive him then they’d only owe him $5,000,000 for the 2024-25 season. However, it can become fully guaranteed if he reaches the incentive.

The whole $16,000,000 is guaranteed if he plays 75% of games in the 2023-24 season. In an 82-game season that equals him needing to pay 62 games. This seems to protect against the two likely reason he would play less.

1) He gets injured and is unable to play
2) His play worsens to the point that he’s not playing at all

Bertans contract also contains an Early Termination Option (ETO). This gives Bertans the right to cancel the final year of the contract if it’s to his benefit. He would be allowed to terminate the last year whether he has or has not has not triggered the year to be fully guaranteed. Bertans would have to have a career renaissance before he’d be likely to use the ETO to get out of a year where could could earn between $5,000,000 and $16,000,000

Quote:[Dinwiddie's] last season of $18,857,143 is already guaranteed for $10,000,000. The rest becomes guaranteed if he plays 50 games this year (already at 44) and 50 games next season. This seems to entirely hinge on Dinwiddie’s health next season. He’ll very likely hit the 50 games mark this season since he only needs to play in 6 of the Mavericks final 25 games.

Quote:The five incentives in Dinwiddie’s contract for each season are:

Dinwiddie playing 50 games ($1.5M)
His team getting to the 2nd round ($100,000)
His team getting to the Conference Finals ($571,427)
His team getting to the NBA Finals ($400,000)
His team wins the title ($1)
All these team goals come with the caveat that Dinwiddie has to play in at least 50% of the games for that round.

All 5 of Dinwiddie’s incentives are unlikely because neither he nor Washington (and now, nor Dallas) did these last season.

THEREFORE none of the $2,571,428 total in incentives count in Dinwiddie’s cap charge.

Quote:Now to explain the unfortunate side of Dinwiddie earning these incentives. IF he earns them this season then his estimated cap charge for next season will include the incentive, This is because with him hitting that mark the incentive would change from unlikely to likely. So if Dinwiddie plays in six more games to hit 50 then his cap charge for next season will go up by $1.5 million to $19.5.

If he hits them all then his 2022-23 contract cap charge would become $20,571,428. We’d welcome that with open arms because that would mean the Mavericks won the championship.

I’ve been saying “cap charge” because likely incentives only count against the cap, but don’t necessarily mean he’ll earn it again next year. If the Mavericks were trying to be a cap space team then this would matter but since the Mavericks will be far above the cap it won’t matter at all.

As far as tax implications, Spencer hitting incentives in the 2021-22 season wouldn’t raise the Mavericks tax for the 2022-23 season. The Mavericks tax bill for the 2022-23 season will use the incentives that he actually receives next season.

(02-14-2022, 10:37 AM)ItsGoTime Wrote: So… high likelihood both players get that final season guaranteed. Gotcha. Lots of talk about that around here with so much confidence we could easily get rid of them a year earlier. How’s that confidence looking today?

(02-14-2022, 10:37 AM)ItsGoTime Wrote: So… high likelihood both players get that final season guaranteed. Gotcha. Lots of talk about that around here with so much confidence we could easily get rid of them a year earlier. How’s that confidence looking today?

(02-14-2022, 10:43 AM)Kammrath Wrote: Great deal for the team.

(02-14-2022, 10:43 AM)KillerLeft Wrote: I think they'll be able to move them both earlier than that, if they want to attach assets to them.

(02-14-2022, 11:03 AM)ItsGoTime Wrote: FIFY

(02-14-2022, 11:13 AM)KillerLeft Wrote: I don't agree. 

What's more, you seem bound and determined to be as miserable about this as possible. That's your right, of course!

I have known this was going to happen since before last season's deadline. I am sorry for your loss (it sucks!). I'm over it, and have been for some time now.

(02-14-2022, 11:30 AM)ItsGoTime Wrote: Remember the optimism about JRich matching his Mia days here because..Luka? Delon Wright, the same thing. The fit was so perfect, how could it possibly go wrong? The optimism about SD's no defense playing on a team trying to play defense self is just more of the same to me. I would be fine if people were trying to say, let's see what we got first. We have some of those here, we just have a vocal few that are going to great lengths to make this trade look to be more than it is.

(02-14-2022, 12:20 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: I guess I see this as two, separate conversations, or maybe even three. 

1) KP is gone!!!!!!!!!! (Some are saddened by this, but I am "WOOOOOOHOOOOOO!!!!")

2) That's all they could get for him???? (I believe yes, but that might be because of my opinion on #1). 

3) These new guys are not exciting at all and bring new problems, not solutions (some are trying to argue this - I'm not one of them. I'm concerned. But, I think I'm cautiously hopeful that they're right about it, probably because of my takes on 1 and 2 shading me towards relief and my diehard Mavs fandom shading me towards hope).

(02-14-2022, 12:36 PM)ItsGoTime Wrote: 1 - Right there with you, I can't agree with you more.

2 - I feel over the course of Nico's tenure, there was a possibility of more, all speculation, and I was always going to be upset with the return seeing now what he did return, there's just been so many waa-waa-waa-waaaaaaaaaaaa moments in the last 10 years, I'm SO freakin ready for the once-in-a-while good news report (it doesn't have to be 2018 draft-like good news either, just something going in our favor. This is also explained in my post in Mavs News.

3 - Man, I just want more talent on this team.