TDL Archived: The 2nd Rnd Pick Yankee Swap

[Jason Terry]

In regard to Cuban spending i think we have to look at the bigger picture. Early in his time he was a big spender and it didn’t help all that much, but he did it. It was obviously not worth to spend big in Dirks later years or Lukas first years. We currently are top 10 this year and are a taxpayer with a ridiculous payroll for what the product actually is. Cuban more than anything loves to be right and has a lot of pride. The only Mavericks thing that matters is keeping Luka Doncic. We only have him guaranteed for 3 more years after this one. If we avoid the tax next season, we can re-sign Green and Hardy and whoever else in the following seasons and pay the tax and avoid the repeater penalties. This is his best path to keep Luka and avoid being an embarrassment to DFW

It’s strategically important for us to be under ~$165 million for next season specifically. We need to max out the talent under that number and Hardaway makes more sense than anybody to be dealt by any means necessary KP style 

In regard to salary matching in a big trade. 1) Dinwiddie and Bullock are better salary matching players for the next 2 trade cycles 2) Bertans and Mcgee leave us with contracts for matching down the road too……and we get all our picks in a few months

The only alternative to this plan is FA a year from July. We pay tax next season and go under and get a Sabonis. Anybody want to go back to plan powder?

Another factor in this is our RSN just went bankrupt and one of the mavs biggest revenue streams is in jeopardy. This is a business. That one thing is such a big deal it threatens to separate all major sports from cable television in a permanent way. Something like $8 billion in local sports rights payments are up in the air in a few months