2019-2020 Mavs Trade Discussion + Salary Chart

[SkenfromLMF]

The Mavs currently sit at 6 million from the Hard Cap. The Trade Exceptions count toward the Hard Cap. IF the right trade comes along that takes Dallas above a 6 million dollar return, then the TE's would have to be renounced to make the trade legal.

They do? I tried to look that up and I found nothing saying that trade exceptions count toward the cap. I looked at the CBA and it mentioned nothing regarding trade exceptions being counted towards the cap either to my knowledge. Every single website has the Mavs at 120 million in salary at the moment. According to that logic, the Mavs are currently in the luxury tax. Where did you read that? 

I know over the summer the Mavs had to choose to operate as an over the cap team or under the cap team and depending on their route they could have waived the exceptions and taken the cap space instead. Even so if the Mavs were to waive these exceptions (or let them expire), their total team salary would still be at 120 million, which is 18 million below 138, and 12 million below the luxury tax. 

Trade exceptions are incredibly complicated and I still don't fully understand them (I WISH DLORD WAS HERE), so what you're saying could be 100% true, I just couldn't find anything to verify that.

Exactly right regarding Trade Exception as the unused portion of Barnes'/Matthews' salary for both the cap space and the hard cap calculations. IMO, the Matthews TE is non-existent (hard to trade for a salary less than 2 million that is not a minimum exception anyway).
The only issue I am trying to clarify regarding the hard cap calculation is that we can't take on a large chunk of salary in a trade AND use the TEs. Yes, theoretically the Mavs could renounce the TEs and have an entire $18 million cushion, but to do that means using current roster assets to improve the team.

IMO the way this would work with Iggy is to trade Lee and Broekhoff and then take on a balast salary from another team that has a player Memphis wants. That trade would increase Dallas' salary by about 3 million...