MAVS 107, BULLS 117

[mvossman]

30 million of cap space, Powell, Kleber and Burke or Green make up for the remaining money. Mavs could easily replicate what Chicago did. They were not sending out better players in their SnT deals. Or alternatively, Mavs could dump Powell somewhere and go after the likes of Graham, Holmes and THJ. The mechanics to pull this off are pretty easy imho and certainly possible, as shown by Chicago. If you convince guys to want to come.

I don't think it is as easy as you make it to dump 20 mil.  The Bulls used a 1st and 3 seconds to make those trades.  We could have landed Holmes instead of Bullock by letting WCS walk.  I would have greatly preferred that move.  He is the one guy I am fairly confident we could have gotten for a few mil more than he got paid (if we even needed that much).  As to the rest, it all comes back to your last sentence.  I think the biggest reason we hired Kidd and Nico was for recruiting purposes and I do consider that an epic fail considering the biggest name we brought in was Bullock.