(06-18-2024, 12:37 PM)DanSchwartzgan Wrote: If you want to trade match THJ for a larger salary now, there are a couple of things to bear in mind. Normally a trade match for THJ would be at a $7.5mm spread. We are only $6.2mm under the apron for 23/24 and we are hard-capped. So, something under $6.2mm is the most we could bring back above what THJ makes. $17.8 + $6.2 = $24mm. However, anything over about $600k makes us a tax team for 23/24. So, $18.5mm might be the practical limit for returning salary from a June trade of THJ unless we send out an additional salary.
Those numbers look way off. As has been written already, the Mavs relation to the Apron is $0 room for practical purposes, not $6.2M, and that $0 assumes only a14-man roster. EDITED TO ADD - I was focusing on next season numbers, and the numbers that matter are that player(s) coming back need to be dollar-neutral or better for their contracts next year, even if the trade is done in June.
So any swap has to be dollar neutral or better vs THJ's 16.2, and that includes accounting for any empty roster slots created.