2021-2022 ROSTER TALK: [ARCHIVED]

[omahen]

My question is... where is the limit on his payday? At what point does DAL say "Thanks for your time, JB, but we can't justify that contract"? This assumes we are past the old MBT stupid money contracts, which may not be reality. (FWIW, I also worry about bidding against ourselves.)

I am affraid Mavs are in the so called bird trap. They lose big time if the guy walks. So he has some leverage to extort them. I am not sure there is realistic way where Mavs would need to pay like max money. No one will likely offer that to Brunson. But numbers in the range of 20 per year are possible. I think it is better to pay up than let him walk. 

At that point, it will be a matter of the Mavs working with that team to see if they can come up with something mutually beneficial.

It is also possible to just use the Brunson outgoing to match the salary from the third team. This might be prefered by some teams than taking (for example) THJ. Mavs would also likely prefer to do it this way than include expiring contracts like Maxi/Powell/Bullock in the trade for that player. If I am GM, I am looking for this kind of deals.