Buyout Market: DAL officially signs MKG | Broekhoff waived

[Jym]

Wait a minute here??? Why would we sign him to a vet min deal and let him spend the rest of the season trying out for other teams? And with Luka's help? 

Don’t we have a bunch of cap space? Or can’t we get it by waiving the remainder of that now-worthless trade exception for Harrison Barnes? 

Why wouldn’t we offer a multi-year, declining-value deal with a team option? And wouldn’t he want the same—a larger guaranteed amount (over more years), more money this year (in a declining-value deal), and Mavs' bird rights when he’s eligible for his next contract? 

Somebody with cap smarts please tell me why on earth this would be a vet-min, half-season deal???

I stole one of Kamm's charts
We're well over the cap by nearly 16 mil. KP, Maxi, and Dodo all had capholds smaller than their deals so capspace was mostly dead the moment we re-signed them. Then the other guys just added on top of that  
Then this coming summer we'll have negligible capspace so we'll just be staying over the cap again and using the MLE to add talent unless a trade surprises us