Luxury Tax Hell

[KillerLeft]

If Cuban won’t pay the Luxury Tax to keep Brunson or uses the pick to offload a contract it’s another wasted season. I’d be OK if he paired the pick with one of the contracts and got at least somewhat of an upgrade player wise. But straight up using the contract to dump the pick would be a real bummer.

Yeah, in addition to @"F Gump"'s good points about the tax and how we might all be more scared of it than the Mavs are, I think there's something being missed right now due all the (justifiable) shock and (somewhat justifiable) negativity about the trade:

With KP gone and the new guys here, the Mavs, while still not as talented as they want to be (obviously) are at least able to play the way they want to play. That's an easy to overlook development that I believe negates the need to "dump" anyone. They're not trying to go for cap space anytime soon, so unless there's a purely financial reason to dump someone (see our tax debate) then every deal from here should be drawn up with the intent of improving, in theory. 

That's not to say that it's going to be easy or anything, but it's not like they MUST trade anyone, at this point, especially if FGump's suggestion is true. I think they simply start looking for opportunities to combine these contracts together to go after incremental upgrades at different positions. And honestly, they are deep enough now (albeit deep with a talent level some around here don't like) for more of these guys to be expendable for the right return.