Trade & FA 2024-25:

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@CBAMavs
Mavericks can’t sign anyone bought out right now. They are only 170k below the 1st apron. They’d have to shed salary to create enough room to offer a minimum salary to anyone bought out.

Ah, that Nico, he sure is an expert in navigating the cap to advantage, isn't he? ~sarcasm alert~

The Luka trade itself was a master class in what happens when a GM doesn't use an expert, and then moving pieces are used against him rather than seeing the easy way. 

Mavs sent a pick to UT to help solve LA roater/cap problem for them, if they did the eventual trade. BUT that issue didn't have to be there.

The easy obvious trade to do was 
Luka-Maxi
AD-Christie-Knecht, 2029, 2031

No Utah. No cap issues. Both payrolls stay about the same. 

If you want to do MORE with your roster and cap, you do it in a separate deal after you get full value for Luka. Not sure that's full value even, but you have to demand and get all that's there out of respect for Luka. Nico was too stupid to know how stupid he was.

I hated that Cuban sucked at GM things and thought he was the smartest guy in the room, getting pantsed for decades. It looks like Nico is no better.