Trade & FA 2025-26: Free Agency Starts 5pm CST/6pm EST

[DanSchwartzgan]

Late to the party, and haven't read the Twitter rumors.  But, my first thought when I first started reading posts was Donovan Mitchell.  To me, he makes more sense in Dallas than Garland.  The other thought I had was Jarrett Allen to LA with Gafford back-filling to Cleveland.  You can overcome the aggregation issues for Cleveland by dividing things into two stand alone deals.    
I came up with two versions that salary match.  Klay, Gafford, Martin and Hardy adds $250k to Dallas salary.  Klay, Gafford and PJ adds $1.1mm.  Note that it isn't enough to just get the deal to barely work financially for Dallas.  You have to also account for filling in the needed roster spots with minimums.  The second deal (3 for 1), creates roster room to add Exum and K. Jones.  But, it doesn't create room under the second apron.  

That's the issue with barely legal constructs (I think SH had something similarly tight for Garland a few pages back).  You have to create some extra space to fill out the roster and create a sufficient margin under the second apron.  You typically have to add more salary (and probably send at least one of the outgoing players to an additional team).  FWIW, I had Jarrett Allen going to LA for Rui in the second stand alone deal involving these three teams.