06-24-2024, 12:23 PM
(06-24-2024, 12:13 PM)Smitty Wrote: His salary must be guaranteed.
Per MavsCBA: To be counted in the trade math….the salary has to be guaranteed.
And if you waive guaranteed salary you can stretch it but it will all eventually count as dead money.
It can be offset a small amount if the player is signed by another team. It’s not much though.
Only the guaranteed part counts for outgoing salary. Which means Washington would have to have cap space to do the trade, but then why even bother including Shamet, if the whole goal is just to dump him.
So I guess it really is just about the difference in salary. Mavs are trading a better player for a worse one. Both expiring, better player is 6 mil more expensive. However (the complicated part), Washington could just dump Shamet by non guaranteeing him. So they are effectively still eating whole THJ salary. I would still hope for minimum compensation. I am also totally ok with 2024 Washington pick swap with 2025 Mavs pick.