01-24-2026, 12:53 PM
(01-23-2026, 05:22 PM)Smitty Wrote: Safe to say Gafford would be the outgoing in a Mathurin trade. So, $17.3 as a Year 1 salary for Mathurin is where you’d be starting from to keep everything as-is.
I think the Mavs would make more than just that trade between the deadline and this summer.
Bottom line, if the Mavs want to keep Mathurin, they can and will. White they have no control.
The question should be: Is Mathurin worth (and willing to take) a 4 yr $75M deal? That’s what it’d be if you use Year 1 Gafford money.
The problem is they potentially need to shed 27 mil, and Gafford is one of the better tools to do it. They would have to trade AD or both Klay and Naji to get there. I'm not sure what Mathurin will cost either. One of the cap space teams could offer him more than that and put tax pressure on Mavs.