2021-2022 ROSTER TALK: [ARCHIVED]

[ItsGoTime]

The Mavs are probably going to be uninvolved in any free agency, because of their limits, except for 2-way and projects to try to develop in the GL They lack roster space at the moment (maybe even locked into 16 so far, not 15), so anyone they find to sign cheaply creates an issue. Plus they can't offer over $6M-ish to sign a player.

They might or might not do a trade to ease the roster crunch  - but another possibility is a trade that adds yet another body, making it even worse, such as using the TPE to add a player.

So Mo Bamba (and others like him) are out of their reach and not really worth discussing, with them being essentially a financial impossibility. Re Bamba, the QO to make him restricted, where ORL controls his rights, is over $10M. The most the Mavs can offer is about $6M to start, on a 3 year deal max.

I agree that there is very little wiggle room this offseason, but when they get the list of the types of players Kidd wants in his system, I really hope they don’t go into trying to acquire said players with what you said in mind. Miami has been the gold standard for that can-do attitude. I hope this new FO tries more to emulate that.