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[SleepingHero]

These are the numbers to keep in mind, save, write down,

One blinking red light is Nikola Jovic at exactly $16.2m. 
Terance Mann is another name that's less mentioned at $15.5m. 
Dennis Schroder of course, $14.8m
Scoot Henderson $13.6m
Moses Moody $12.5m
Jarred Vanderbilt $12.4m


These are just simple trades where the player is received via AD TPE. Of course, the $$ spread would be different if any player is outgoing.

I get the money matches up almost perfectly, but Jovic's deal for his production currently is unstomachable. For example, Isaiah Stewart who is a more productive player on a similar contract required 3 2nds to be dumped. Aldama a better player than both Steward and Jovic and making slightly more than both, required the equivalent of 3 seconds to acquire.

Does that push Jovic into a FRP-territory-required-to-be-attached-to-dump?

Does that even sound appetizing to Dallas as a team with a relatively clean cap sheet that can feasibly use said space in the future to acquire really good talent around Cooper? 

If MIA had a good point guard that fit, then I could see Jovic being realistic, but you'd have to be really sure he'll thrive in a new environment. Which I'm not too sure of.

Just for fun:

Jovic+ Dru Smith to Dal (18.4in). Klay+Martin to MIA (27.4 out) works financially. MIA only has 2027, 2029, and 2032 FRP to swap. Mavs don't have either to swap in 27 or 29, but a swap in 32 could be interesting given that's far past the Giannis window. In lieu of draft capital, MIA eats a bit of bad money (but positionally works out for them because they are in desperate need to fill out their roster). 

Plus getting off of Martin's deal for next year sort of offsets the cost of eating Jovic for at least a season. The net increase in the Lux tax room goes to $24,912,414, which means we are allowed to use the full AD trade exception without dipping into the tax (and 1st apron room goes to 32,154,849). Does a short term high value deal in a SnT for Mathurin make more sense for this roster now in this reality? We wouldn't even have to send anything out, just sign him to the TPE amount, which would allow Clippers to fully pursue Watson.

Roster would be:

Irving/De Larrea/Nemby 
Mathurin/Christie/Smith (Johnny PullA3) 
Flagg/Marshall/Biberovic/ (Lawal) 
Washington/Aldama/Jovic/
Lively/Gafford/Morez/(Cisse)

First thought looking at that team is that they have a lot of guys who can play 20 minutes a game.