Trade & Free Agency 2026/2027

[DanSchwartzgan]

Yes, we had some back n forth on this idea already. The trade would look like this:




The Mavs would be ~$3.9M below the tax line and have one open roster spot. Powell? Seva? Someone else?

Maybe you include Naji's expiring (more useful player), instead of Martin, to get it over the finish line? Only a difference of ~$600k for cap purposes, which is nothing in the grand scheme of things. It would be all your Vet assets outgoing in one deal. Netting Yaxel, a big expiring in Butler for use at the TDL(?), and a FRP in a draft where you don't own one (unless Top-2).

Martin has unlikely bonuses which matter to a team fighting apron issues.  So, Naji instead makes sense from that standpoint.  Between the August 1st thing for Yaxel and how neatly this fits under the tax (when you add back to 15 players), this all makes some sense.