06-28-2024, 05:53 PM
(06-28-2024, 05:26 PM)SleepingHero Wrote: Or if we add in Maxi, we can get a guy making 23.65M. But a 2 for 1 we have to account for an empty roster charge, so let's say 21.4
A 4 year deal starting at 21.4 with 5% raises is 92mil. It sounds a lot (*cough for Klay*) but the breakdown is:
21.4
22.5
23.6
24.7
The cap is just going up so that number is gonna hurt less and less. Secondly, looking at this roster construction contract wise, we don't have a guy making anything in their 20s. We basically have Luka+Kyrie and a bunch of MLE deals. Now that's great in terms of keeping costs low, but if we're trying to upgrade the roster in a couple of years after the Kyrie window is closed, it'll be good for us to have a 20 something mil deal that's close to expiring that we can add with an MLE level deal that can get us a difference maker.
Yes those numbers would work.
The question is how much salary (and what players) GS would be willing to take back. If you erase the salaries of both CP3 and Klay (because he just signs elsewhere, not a SNT), they are under the tax line. They are about 144M with 10 players so far, without either.
They might want to use the big MLE. Or they could take back about 20M in match salary for Klay, if it yields better value players than the MLE offers.
One thing that might be relevant -- as long as the Mavs stay below their Apron number (ie, Apron minus cushion), they can do a trade greater than 100%. It's their Apron number that matters most.