Trade & FA 2024-25:

[DanSchwartzgan]

Yeah I don't know why CBAMavs said that. The 2024-25 season doesn't officially start until July 1st. Until then we're in 2023-24. As long as the Mavs trade for Shamet before his guarantee the Mavs can do a trade and dump pretty easily. 

Its the exact same concept the Warriors are trying to do for CP3 right now.


*Asterisk here saying I don't know everything about the new CBA and I could easily be wrong. So take this with a grain of salt.

You do have to guarantee enough of his 24-25 salary to make the trade match legal.  Same with CP3.  They aren’t trading him as an instantly vanishing trade chip.  Those don’t exist anymore.

I think the play here is to trade match Shamet for THJ.  That gets you about $7.5m under the apron with no cushion.  Then you S/W him as others have mentioned.  That gets you $14mm under the apron.

If you do the protected 2025 for Washington #26 thing that I’ve brought up before, it costs you $2.6mm to pay for the rookie.  But, you were going to need a minimum wage guy at $2.0mm anyway.  Now you have $11.5mm left to fund a cushion under the apron and pay DJJ a starting wage of about $10.0-$10.5mm

Edit: You only have to guarantee enough of Shamet’s salary to make the trade legal. So, depending on timing, that might save a few more dollars.