12-20-2024, 02:37 AM
(12-20-2024, 01:35 AM)Jason Terry Wrote: Mavs get: DFS and a couple future 2nds
Nets get: Naji, Powell, Hardy and our 2025 FRP
Hard cap doesn't allow that. To stay under the hard cap it takes outgoing of dollar-for-dollar PLUS cap room to fill the salary slots of every extra player, so that's about 3-4M short. And NJ would have to waive 2 players, which they won't like either.
Adding extra minimum salary players (such as Hardy) doesn't really help the math, as you end up having to sign a minimum salary player to fill that extra empty slot.
However, including Naji would make a chunk of minutes available for DFS, so it works from that angle.
A Maxi-Powell-Exum package or something like that comes close on the cap math (which is fuzzied a bit by how and when you fill empty slots). However that may leave the depth too thin at C, and doesn't offer a good path to enough minutes for DFS.
If including a FRP, I want a 2nd for a future year (not 2025) in return. BKN has plenty.