Trade & FA 2024-25:

[Mavs2021]

Keith Smith (@KeithSmithNBA)
Updated 2024 NBA cap space projections post-Round 1 of the NBA Draft:

Pistons: $64.4M
76ers: $61.3M
Magic: $49.5M
Jazz: $38.1M
Thunder: $31.1M
Spurs: $26.4M

Thunder went down by acquiring the Dillon Jones pick. Spurs went up by trading the Rob Dillingham pick.

That´s why I think it will be easier to trade THJ in a package with Green for an more expensive impact player. THJ costs like 25 to 50% of a team´s remaining capspace for an outright dump and he has little player value. Why would another team want to do that? If you add Green to the equation, you get a cost-controlled young asset, while you suffer the THJ contract for one season. Lose DeRozan for nothing or get Josh Green. Easy choice for the Bulls.*

*arguing this from the perspective of the other teams. Not whether the Mavs should give up Green for a player like DeRozan.