Yesterday, 01:29 PM
(Yesterday, 01:11 PM)Mavs2021 Wrote: We are at 150M right now. Add 10M for the draft picks, 15M for the full MLE =175M. 1st apron is 210M. Can´t we sign Middleton with Non-Bird Rights up to nearly 40M a year? The bigger problem seems that Bagley´s max salary is like 2.7M. If anything we´d have to use part of an exception on Bagley. Theoretically we could also use the TPE to sign Simons or Sexton over the MLE. That could give us a small salary edge over other MLE teams.
The only argument to signing Middleton is that we could do it without touching the MLE space. To use the TPE to sign one of those guys it would have to be a S&T right? There are so many options now. We could take back more salary in trades for guys like Gafford/Klay/PJ and still have the full MLE.