NBA 2024 Buyout Watch List

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Sorry if I'm repeating something. I don't know if people saw this... from a Clutchpoint article.

Explains how Lakers offered more money to Dinwiddie.

"Spencer Dinwiddie signed a $1.5 million contract with the Lakers because the front office reportedly didn’t use a “full non-taxpayer mid-level exception on Gabe Vincent last offseason,” according to Shams Charania and Jovan Buha of The Athletic. That decision gave Los Angeles some extra money to sign a buyout player this season who happened to be Dinwiddie."

The Mavs also had 5.5 mil left over from their NT-MLE. They could have offered up to 3.3 mil and stayed under tax. But our own resident Mr.Gump highlighted it's not as simple as the overall dollar amount when it comes to buyout signings above the minimum. 

At the end of the day the Mavs could've offered more than the Lakers if they wanted to. Whether they actually did remains to be seen.