Trade & Free Agency 2026/2027

[Winter]

The math should be easy -- I would assume Risacher is being added via TPE. I'm away from my working data, so not sure where that leaves the total payroll, but they still have another deal looming (assuming this is a one-for-one) since they have 16.

"The Mavericks will use their existing $20.8MM traded player exception to take on Risacher’s $13.8MM contract, tweets Yossi Gozlan of Third Apron. Risacher will be owed $17.4MM in ’27/28 if the Mavs pick up his fourth-year option."

Gozlan projects Dallas to be $2.3MM under the luxury tax line after the trade is complete. The team will still have 16 players under standard contract after the move is official, Gozlan adds.