DAL OFFSEASON: Trade & FA | Mavs "mostly done...but you never know."

[DanSchwartzgan]

Bobby Marks has a piece up listing how 11 teams would have to maneuver the cap in order to sign Giannis in 21.  He uses a flat cap of $109.1mm as his dollar assumption.  Dallas is the third team he writes about after Miami and Toronto.  Bottom line, we have to make $15mm in salaries go away to do an outright signing.  This assumes we keep our first round pick, but that we don't add any long term money through the MLE or trades.  Here is the section of his Insider piece on Dallas:


[b]Dallas Mavericks[/b]

• [b]Projected room:[/b] $18 million
  
  
• [b]Who returns:[/b] Luka Doncic ($10.1 million), Kristaps Porzingis ($31.7 million), Dwight Powell ($11.1 million), Delon Wright ($8.5 million), Maxi Kleber ($8.8 million), Seth Curry ($8.2 million), Dorian Finney-Smith ($4.0 million), Jalen Brunson ($1.8 million) and 2020 first-round pick
  
  
• [b]Who might be gone:[/b] Tim Hardaway Jr. (free agent), Boban Marjanovic (free agent), Justin Jackson (free agent) and Willie Cauley-Stein (free agent)
  
  
• [b]Other charges:[/b] Minimum salary adjustment ($6.1 million)
  

The Mavericks would have been sitting on a max slot if the salary cap stayed at $125 million. Instead, they will need to trade $15 million in contracts to create the room to pursue Antetokounmpo. But Dallas does have expiring contracts in Wright ($8.5 million) and Finney-Smith ($4.0 million) along with team-friendly deals in Powell, Curry and Kleber to make the maneuvers possible.


[b]2020-21 trade considerations:[/b] It's unlikely given the health concerns and $130 million still left on the contract, but would the Bucks consider an Antetokounmpo-for-Porzingis swap? After Porzingis and, of course, Doncic, the Dallas roster is filled with serviceable role players. The Mavericks are also restricted from sending out draft picks because New York is owed a 2021 unprotected first and 2023 top-10 protected first via Dallas. The earliest Dallas could trade a first would be 2025.