Trade & FA 2024-25:

[SleepingHero]

So a Maxi for Portis trade works? $11M vs 12.6M? Saves MIL salary and tax $$ and DAL gets a younger big to more reliably fill the #2 PF position, with maybe some small ball C?

Sounds easy, but it never is.

Not quite. Mavs have about 530k of room to play with in a trade. They'd need to send out at least one other contract to make up the difference. BUT because MIL is a 2nd apron team, they cannot do a trade where they receive more salary than they are sending out. To make things even more complicated, MIL can't make any trade where they send 2 players (or more) at once. Mavs only limit is the 1st apron this year (which is 178.1) in which they cannot cross that line at all.

So any hypothetical trade involving the Mavs would have to be a 3 team trade, where the Mavs send Maxi to MIL, someone else (like Hardy) to another team, and the Mavs receive Portis.