Trade & FA 2024-25:

[F Gump]

" Doubt DAL likes it either, since THJ-Green-Powell for Grant ends up with DAL having TxMLE (5.2M) and minimums, which likely means DJJ is out the door. "

Well in this fantasy they're also getting Thybulle. That could soften the blow of losing DJJ. .

I didn't understand that it was a Grant-Thybulle package. 

THJ-Green-Powell for Grant-Thybulle is a million miles from being a legal trade. It's not even close. They would need to send another $8M in salary, and end up over Apron 1 with a hard cap at Apron 2.

Let me add another comment about the Grant idea. I think it flies in the face of what the Mavs have been doing, which is to target modest-sized bargain contracts for the rest of the role players, that complement Luka and Kai. There's only so much money to go around. Gotta find the players that can outplay their salary. If you pay more, they MUST excel at both ends, be the right age, etc. That's not Grant at all, who gets $30M but is far from an all-star, and who has turned into a lazy-defense player now that he got a big deal. I think they are headed the other way, targeting the players who have been overlooked, and have a really strong chance to outplay their contract, rather than heading for the PHX model where it's 3 players plus a team full of minimums who are just too thin to do all the other things well that Luka-Kai don't do.

Who is a different Gafford? Or - how do you create someone like that, who isn't yet on a huge salary and can help you on both ends?