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

[mvossman]

That's actually a big deal. Good catch. Quickley also has a $2.5M ULTBE. Poeltl has one also but only $500K. Martin already has a $1.3M ULTBE that counts against the Apron next year, but I think he's needed in a TOR deal if it's Quickley instead of Poeltl.

Working with those numbers, the only realistic trade that includes IQ+RJ is them adding Agbaji. Mavs would need to send back AD, Martin, DLO, BWill OR Exum.

Toronto's Roster looks like this after:

Shead | DLO | BWill
Barnes | Walter | Dick | Temple
Ingram | Martin | Battle
CMB | Mogbo
Davis | Poeltl | Sandro



If you were to make an AD trade with TOR for Barrett+Quickley, without a 3rd team involved, you'd go into next season maybe needing to trade back in the draft, if you're in the 7-8 spot, or make additional trades in the summer to avoid A2. You also might not want a TOR FRP this year, but instead '27, where you currently have none.


Irving | Quickley | Nembhard*
Max | Klay | Hardy
Barrett | Naji | FRP
Flagg | PJW
Lively | Gafford | Cisse*

*Converted Nembhard and Cisse to full roster.

You are right at the second apron with only 14 roster spots. (assuming ~$8M for FRP slot #7)


Edit: There's a simpler version that works but hurts the Mavs even more financially next year. RJ+IQ for Davis+DLO+Hardy

That feels like a move that would ensure this is a good team going forward, but I think it provides less chance for contention than most other trades discussed.  The fact that you have a guy making 32 mil a year for the next 4 years as a backup player is a red flag.  Talk of trading back on whats likely to be the most important draft for the next 10 years is also a red flag.