Dan's got it right. The timing doesn't work.
The tampering and collusion issues would have been problematic. So would the ability to know what hasn't happened yet.
The Kemba deal only scratched the surface, and signaled that the NY intent to try to get JB was real, but it was far from enough cap room, so it mostly just showed they were trying. Getting rid of Kemba was only at the cost of a swap of FRP's (so it didn't cost that much) and didn't show any extreme commitment to the JB chase at that point. It was nowhere near any kind of all-in move.
The 2nd deal with DET was more of a commitment, and once that was done, it seemed that NY must be fairly sure. But until then, with NY still lacking that last 20M in space before that deal, how can the Mavs know NY will be getting Brunson, and be able to have the space to do so, until the 2nd swap has been made? They can't. And once it has already been made, the cap-room clearing deal (with NY sending out Burks, Noel, 2 SRPs - with one SRP coming back the other way) isn't an option for the Mavs to do themselves.
We want to suppose that NY would have preferred to do it with DAL. But why? They didn't need Dallas.
Those are the big issues, but there are more.
Given the past experiences, I have big questions about whether the Mavs would have had any interest in Noel anyhow. And Burks is coming off surgery. Getting those 2, to only net a measly SRP, while also bumping your payroll and tax by about $95M total, isn't that enticing.
There would have been match complications too. Not that it's possible, but if DAL had had that super Future Vision thing to magically replace DET in clearing that last 20M of room for NY, Brunson's salary didn't trade match Noel-Burks anyhow for DAL, nor did Burks-Noel match Brunson for NY, so it would have been a complicated deal needing more players and perhaps more teams in order to do. Sometimes those extra added players and teams are easy to include, but other times they kill deals. Why would NY want to be bothered with that, when the DET option was so easy and cheap?
The tampering and collusion issues would have been problematic. So would the ability to know what hasn't happened yet.
The Kemba deal only scratched the surface, and signaled that the NY intent to try to get JB was real, but it was far from enough cap room, so it mostly just showed they were trying. Getting rid of Kemba was only at the cost of a swap of FRP's (so it didn't cost that much) and didn't show any extreme commitment to the JB chase at that point. It was nowhere near any kind of all-in move.
The 2nd deal with DET was more of a commitment, and once that was done, it seemed that NY must be fairly sure. But until then, with NY still lacking that last 20M in space before that deal, how can the Mavs know NY will be getting Brunson, and be able to have the space to do so, until the 2nd swap has been made? They can't. And once it has already been made, the cap-room clearing deal (with NY sending out Burks, Noel, 2 SRPs - with one SRP coming back the other way) isn't an option for the Mavs to do themselves.
We want to suppose that NY would have preferred to do it with DAL. But why? They didn't need Dallas.
Those are the big issues, but there are more.
Given the past experiences, I have big questions about whether the Mavs would have had any interest in Noel anyhow. And Burks is coming off surgery. Getting those 2, to only net a measly SRP, while also bumping your payroll and tax by about $95M total, isn't that enticing.
There would have been match complications too. Not that it's possible, but if DAL had had that super Future Vision thing to magically replace DET in clearing that last 20M of room for NY, Brunson's salary didn't trade match Noel-Burks anyhow for DAL, nor did Burks-Noel match Brunson for NY, so it would have been a complicated deal needing more players and perhaps more teams in order to do. Sometimes those extra added players and teams are easy to include, but other times they kill deals. Why would NY want to be bothered with that, when the DET option was so easy and cheap?
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