2019-2020 Mavs Trade Discussion + Salary Chart

[SleepingHero]

Don't know what Cuban is talking about. The NBA by definition doesn't have a hard cap, as if that were the case every team would be stuck at 109mm for their salary this year. 

https://www.hoopsrumors.com/2019/08/nba-...01920.html

I mean just reading that article, it states that the Mavs aren't hard capped. 

"The NBA salary cap is somewhat malleable, with various exceptions allowing every team to surpass the $109,140,000 threshold once their room is used up. In some cases, teams blow past not only the cap limit, but the luxury-tax limit of $132,627,000 as well — the [b]Trail Blazers[/b] have this season’s highest payroll at the moment, more than $11MM above the tax line. The NBA doesn’t have a “hard cap” by default, which allows a club like Portland to build a significant payroll without violating CBA rules. However, there are certain scenarios in which teams [i]can[/i] be hard-capped......Outside of the Warriors and Heat, no clubs on the list above are really being restricted by the hard cap at this time. A few teams – such as the Pistons and Magic – are near the luxury tax threshold, but that still gives them several million dollars in breathing room below the hard cap.

The Mavs would need to take on 18 million additional salary with taking none in return for this to even come into play. What possible trades could that even trigger such a thing? 

Even in a CP3 trade, which is probably the most expensive deal the Mavs could conjure up, they would have to send out THJ and Lee to match the salaries, which moves them 126 million, and 12 million below this line. I don't think there is any probable way (and by probable I mean trades that don't blow up the team) for the Mavs to get to 138 million this season, thus it shouldn't have any affect on our ability to make trades and is a non-factor.