07-27-2021, 09:42 PM
I think potentially the sign-and-trade deal for Lowry could be J-Rich, Maxi, and WCS. That’s ~$24.5M outgoing, so Lowry can get his $30M per, and those are all essentially expiring contracts (Maxi’s final year is non-guaranteed). That would allow the Mavs to operate over the cap, re-sign Hardaway, and have the full MLE and BAE left to use.
Creating the cap space for both Lowry and THJ is definitely more difficult. Supposedly Boston has been tied to the JRich rumors in a salary dump trade. Then I think the likely other player to be dumped is Powell. I could see Orlando for Powell’s landing spot - Mosley supposedly loves him. I’m not too interested in what comes back in those trades, it just needs to be as little guaranteed salary as possible. Roughly, getting to around $45M in space would let you get close to $30M for Lowry and stay in the high teens of $M for THJ. Then you’ve only got the room MLE to finish things off (outside of trades - Brunson?).
Creating the cap space for both Lowry and THJ is definitely more difficult. Supposedly Boston has been tied to the JRich rumors in a salary dump trade. Then I think the likely other player to be dumped is Powell. I could see Orlando for Powell’s landing spot - Mosley supposedly loves him. I’m not too interested in what comes back in those trades, it just needs to be as little guaranteed salary as possible. Roughly, getting to around $45M in space would let you get close to $30M for Lowry and stay in the high teens of $M for THJ. Then you’ve only got the room MLE to finish things off (outside of trades - Brunson?).