Trade & FA 2024-25:

[Smitty]

Keith Smith (@KeithSmithNBA)
With Klay Tompson in the mix at an estimated $15.9M (and Josh Green out), I've got the Mavericks at 14 players and:

$3.4M OVER the tax
$3.9M under the first apron (hard-capped at first apron)


Hold up. I've been playing around with numbers of Klay at 16.2. If he starts at 15.9 then bump up all the numbers I've posted by 300k

That, with the extra million or so difference between Naji and DJJ, should allow the Mavs to comfortably add two VetMin players (assuming Lawson is waived) and allow a cushion that Dan and Gump talk about.