Thanks for the outline and your analysis.
Two broad picture comments:
1 " So, if Bertans ends up being non-simultaneous....." --- I'm not sure what you mean by that, but I'm guessing your intent would be better worded as "So if the Bertans remainder ends up being non-simultaneous" with the idea of talking of an amount not used.
But it may help the general understanding to note that despite the way it was reported (ie, 1 Mavs are getting a 17M TPE in OKC deal, followed by 2 the Mavs spent 12M of that TPE on Holmes), the reality is that the SAC deal will almost certainly be added onto the DAL/OKC deal (it would be foolish to do it any other way), making it a 3-way DAL/OKC/SAC deal. And before all is said and done, they might add more players and/or teams. You probably know this, but others might not.
If what's been done so far is all that happens, then yes the Mavs get to bank a TPE for the difference between DB salary and RH salary, as you noted. But they could effectively piggyback onto that trade to offer a big chunk of payroll savings and get a preferred player as a result.
2 Whether it's spent in free agency (including MLE and minimums), an add-on to the existing 3-way, banking a remainder TPE and then using it, sign-and-trades, a trade with a difference in salary coming and going, or some combo of those, the Mavs only have $X more left to add to current payroll (not counting minimums), and X isn't a real big number. It is somewhere in the vicinity of the MLE right now.
So I would think the Mavs aren't likely to offer much if any payroll space in a trade unless it will be bringing THE Player who would be worth more than any MLE player they could get.
And part of my point being that with the limited room they have, I don't think the Mavs are focusing on ways to make an even wider spread (between incoming and outgoing) in a trade this summer. More likely to be looking at swaps where total salary is fairly close both ways.
Two broad picture comments:
1 " So, if Bertans ends up being non-simultaneous....." --- I'm not sure what you mean by that, but I'm guessing your intent would be better worded as "So if the Bertans remainder ends up being non-simultaneous" with the idea of talking of an amount not used.
But it may help the general understanding to note that despite the way it was reported (ie, 1 Mavs are getting a 17M TPE in OKC deal, followed by 2 the Mavs spent 12M of that TPE on Holmes), the reality is that the SAC deal will almost certainly be added onto the DAL/OKC deal (it would be foolish to do it any other way), making it a 3-way DAL/OKC/SAC deal. And before all is said and done, they might add more players and/or teams. You probably know this, but others might not.
If what's been done so far is all that happens, then yes the Mavs get to bank a TPE for the difference between DB salary and RH salary, as you noted. But they could effectively piggyback onto that trade to offer a big chunk of payroll savings and get a preferred player as a result.
2 Whether it's spent in free agency (including MLE and minimums), an add-on to the existing 3-way, banking a remainder TPE and then using it, sign-and-trades, a trade with a difference in salary coming and going, or some combo of those, the Mavs only have $X more left to add to current payroll (not counting minimums), and X isn't a real big number. It is somewhere in the vicinity of the MLE right now.
So I would think the Mavs aren't likely to offer much if any payroll space in a trade unless it will be bringing THE Player who would be worth more than any MLE player they could get.
And part of my point being that with the limited room they have, I don't think the Mavs are focusing on ways to make an even wider spread (between incoming and outgoing) in a trade this summer. More likely to be looking at swaps where total salary is fairly close both ways.
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