TRADE: Tyus Jones to DAL | Branham to CHA

[mvossman]

Re Jones and Bagley ....
1 I am far from being sold on whether they are a priority ro bring back. They both have MAJOR issues in their game, and we will get a chance to see more over the next 2 months.

2 You assume they will command MLE money, or at least healthy slices, but I do not. In addition, each of them has signing rights!. I think the Mavs would be more likely to use those if they wanted to sign them, over any part of the MLE.

To address the specifics of roster building cap management on them, the reality is that after you include draft picks, the Mavs will be doing very little external shopping. The picks will bring them to 12. They will have 7 players with signing rights - Jones, Bagley, Middleton, Nemby, Cisse, Powell, Williams. 

Besides the resigning rights with each, they will have MLE, BAE, TPE 20M, TPE 6M, and sign and trades to fill up those 3 slots. Since those are presumably end of roster guys, we dont want big salary being spent anyhow. They have an unlimited number of minimums to offer.

TO THE SPECIFIC YOU ASKED
At those numbers (which I think are way too much, but I will play) you pay Jones with his NQ rights of 8.4m iirc, and you pay Bagley with BAE. If they are forcing more than those numbers to something you need elsewhere, you say no. Both are of limited utility.

Jones is having such a terrible year, I don't know if he will get more than vet min at this point.  I will be curious to see how he finishes the season.