2019-2020 Mavs Trade Discussion + Salary Chart

[DanSchwartzgan]

Would you be willing to move Curry, DFS in addition to GSW, #18 if it got you Oladipo and Gordon?

Thinking a scenario where Mavs trade THJ + #18 for Oladipo with no guarantee he will resign (which lowers his trade value). Mavs then move other assets (Curry, DFS, GSW) for Gordon who has an extra year on his deal and thus is worth more. You would lose assets along the way but you are in very good shape.

Starting lineup would have this 4-pack:
Luka
Oladipo
Gordon
KP

Plus you could add another wing in FA with the full MLE. I don't think Powell will start again next to KP. Wright is a guy you might move for a better-fitting wing or guard.

A couple of comments...

I don't know if you are the first to put DFS in a package for Gordon (or if this is the first time I've noticed it), but DFS is a really good fit for them.  Not to mention he's a local boy.  I have no idea what the package would need to be because I don't think we will be the only bidders.  But if I'm Orlando I would make Finney-Smith a higher priority than the pick or anyone else on the roster frankly.  We have a lot of guards and they have a lot of uncertainty around their guards (Augustin and MCW are free this summer, Fournier is UFA one of the next two summers and Fultz is RFA in 21).  Wright and DFS miss matching Gordon by $136k, so anything involving Wright or Curry is going to require at least one more player.

I don't think we can consider Indy some eastern conference patsy.  They are closer to the eastern conference equivalent of the Mav's.  In fact, they made two moves most of us wish Dallas had made last summer (Warren and Brogdon).  The last time they had a superstar free agent, they didn't give him away for junk.  They got Oladipo and Sabonis for him.  The unrealistic part of what you are discussing is the Oladipo part.  BTW, we should probably think in terms of the cap in 21 being closer to $115mm than $125mm.  Player movement by signature becomes much more challenging with teams having $10mm less than they were planning for.