07-07-2025, 08:10 PM
(07-07-2025, 07:03 PM)Smitty Wrote: Well, knowing what I know now, I’d actually be shocked if that wasn’t a move they make. Why would the owner/GM choose an inferior, older player and pay $5M+ extra to do so. I guess the hold up for me is how much money would it take for someone to take on DP? You think you have to send $4M+ to cover his entire salary so he can be waived by whoever you trade him to? What incentive does that team have to do so? Do you have to send $5M, with $1M being the “reason”? I guess what I’m saying is I don’t think anyone is trading for Powell to actually help them on the court, so what makes sense for a team to help the Mavs..
You obviously ask questions that a good NBA negotiator should know the answer to. We have seen such deals as you guess, but circumstances do change.
I think there could be several moving parts to the answer. In particular, are Mavs wanting to include another player? And if so, does he have value or not? Also, how much cap room (or how big of a tpe) are we working with?
I looks to me like BKN still has huge room under the cap minimum, which is a big no-no (dollar-for-dollar cash penalties to NBA at start of season apply). Do they have more spending ahead? If only a little, they would love such deals (and need them) and would basically net every dollar of cash they got in such a deal, so they might offer DAL a really good price to take a waivable player or 2.