2019-2020 Mavs Trade Discussion + Salary Chart

[Scott41theMavs]

Ahhhh, 2021, the next overhyped/overanticipated FA failure year.

You still think 2019 was a failure even though Delon, Seth, and Bobi look like great additions, and the team is already playing better than we expected?

I quote myself in reaction to your similar reaction in the tampering thread:
"I would consider the Mavs' offseason to be... incomplete. I was not aware that they still had a good chunk of the Barnes trade exception. I thought that all went away when they used any of their cap room to sign FAs. Evidently not. I thought their big error, short of convincing someone like Kemba to come here (I'll bet that if they knew how good Luka was going to be this year that more of the top guys would have considered us), was the failure to use the rest of their cap room to sign another player of that Curry/Wright/Boban tier who could have helped us. The Mavs still don't have a competent starting wing, for example, as many have pointed out, and we could use a fifth big who is more of a lay-the-lumber type a la Favors to supplement KP, Maxi, Powell, and Bobi. If the Mavs make good use of the trade exception, which we all presumed was gone, then the offseason, including the great bargain contracts for Maxi and Dodo, becomes an A, and would have been an A+ if we hadn't overpaid Powell in retaining him. Powell is a useful piece for the Mavs, but has negative trade value at that contract price."