Trade & Free Agency 2026/2027

[DanSchwartzgan]

Some math:

About $16.5m from the Tax Line. Which they can surpass obviously.

~$12.1m of the MLE remaining.
~$21m of the AD TPE remaining.
~$23.7m below the A1 hard cap

This seems to be right.  I do wonder if possibly the Biberovic deal was ever so slightly lower and fit into the Hardy exception or what is left of it.  Someone (I believe it was CBA Mavs) showed it to be just a few thousand less than what Spotrac is carrying Biber at.

With all that said, there isn't an imperative to use the TPE now.  We have 15 players and could use it closer to the trade deadline.  Not as fun to think about as a Watson S&T.  Would we give up Naji plus the Laker pick in 2029?  He'd be an interesting addition and very likely better than anything we'd get with that pick (and a better 3 point shooter than Naji will ever be).