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

[cow]

I appreciate Dumont might not want to pay the Luxury Tax, but as a fan, I don't give a f--- about his "wants". His lack of due diligence caused the Mavs to lose a ton of team equity. PD should have to pay whatever "Luka Tax" is necessary to balance out the piss poor trade return. Now, assuming the trade difference to get out of the LT and repeater penalties is negligible, then cool.  But right now Dumont is still in the hole with the team and fan base.

Pretty much.  Salary relief being a boon in this trade is hard to get excited about.  If repeater tax is needed to run this groundball out and get the best deal available, so be it.