TDL Archived: The 2nd Rnd Pick Yankee Swap

[F Gump]

Speaking of that, I was going to ask Dan and @"F Gump" to paint a picture of what the Mavs can offer Kyrie versus the rest of the league/positioning against the CAP.  

Projected CAP is 134M
BBall-Ref has Lakers at 4 players under contract:  LBJ (53.3M), AD (40.6M), Damon Jones (2.5M PO), Christie (1.7M).  98M Total.  

So Lakers could offer him a 4 year deal starting at ~36M?  Some other team could offer him 4YR 210M.  Mavs can offer him 5YR 272M.  If he really wants to play in LA, he'd need a considerable haircut without a S&T.  Sound right?

Yes.

With no players except LBJ (46.9) and AD (40.6), and 10 charges for empty roster slots (at about 1.1M per), LAL limit is at about 35.5M or so in cap room - 4 years = 152.6

Other team limit would be 4 years 201.7M -- but they have to have 46.9M in cap room to make that offer. That's a massive number. Few will.

DAL can offer the 4 yr deal BKN offered and he wanted, which was a hair under 200M (limited by 120% of prior salary), or a 4 year max based on new cap which will be about 210.1M (they can offer bigger raises than other teams), or a 5 year max of 272M.

As with KP, despite all those who want to obsessively remind-remind-remind how this might not work out, I have to think the Mavs are in the driver's seat. It's merely a question of if they want him, and every indication says that's exactly why they did the deal.