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[F Gump]

If it becomes apparent that DLive, AD and Gaff are done for they year, is it possible to apply for a waiver to add players to the roster?

I think others have done that when their teams were depleted, but I don't know the thresholds to qualify.

That's not a solution for DAL.
1 They have to have a full 15 man roster to apply for an extra roster slot, and until they signed Brown, they only had the minimum of 14.
2 They have no money to pay such a player, should they apply for a hardship exception that's granted. The hard cap is literally the most you can spend, period, and they can't even sign a player to a rest-of-season pro-rated minimum contract. Or to a 10-day contract.
3  The two-way slots are designed to provide possible fill-ins for such situations.
4  There aren't any better solutions available out there. They just signed Moses Brown as the "best available" so the next guy would presumably be even worse.

We also need to consider they are likely to get players returning from injury soon, trickling in here and there. Reportedly DP is looming (and who knows but what he'll be in uni on Fri), and Martin is saying he's close as well. Every warm body helps. 

AD was only supposed to be out for 3-4 weeks, of which we are at about the 12 day mark. Lively was on a "check and see in a month" and that month arrives on Sunday. Gafford was thought to be around 6 weeks, which would put him at the last week of March.