11-11-2021, 12:28 PM
(11-11-2021, 09:19 AM)omahen Wrote: This is the tragedy of our offseason. Bottom dwelling Bulls without cap space pulled an offseason where they brought in free agents DeRozan, Ball and Caruso for Young, Sato and Temple. Huge influx of talent. Mavs with near max cap space signed Bullock.
I was disappointed in this offseason as well, but this is a bit of a stretch. The Mavs effectively signed THJ/Bullock/WCS with their near max cap space (operating over the cap) and still have a 10 mil trade exception (that they will probably burn).
DeRozan, Ball and Caruso are like 54 mil a year. We would have had to open up a lot of cap space to make that happen, and Ball was always going to the Bulls (why they are getting busted for tampering).
Maybe if the Spurs were willing to take on KP in an S&T for DeRozan we could have made a big splash like the Bulls did (Something like dumping KP/WCS and getting DeRozan/Holmes/THJ/Bullock), but I'm not sure the Spurs would have been interested in taking on that contract.