11-22-2020, 09:45 AM
I don't have much to add to the mystery surrounding Townsend's tweets. When he quotes a Mav official as saying "TBD", that makes it feel like something more than just a mistake about JJB or the status of Terry.
NBA.com has not reported the James Johnson deal as final. One way of clearing a roster spot would be to send out one more player in that deal and get someone other than Johnson back. We see 2-way and 3-way deals expanded fairly regularly. We can't aggregate Johnson for a period of time once we get him, but if we don't have him yet he and player X off of our current roster could be turned into someone.
It doesn't have to be a a free agent. We could literally send out salary ranging from Brunson all the way up to THJ. To get the returning salary number you would add the outgoing to $14.029,000, not to the $16mm James Johnson makes. If this were to happen, we aren't taking Johnson and then flipping him. We have to go back to the original outgoing and add to that (but the receiving team has to be able to take Johnson plus the contract we add).
To show the math, let me give an example of someone who has been talked about here. This may not be realistic, but it shows the math. Instead of Johnson being the incoming to Dallas, we could add Maxi and bring back Gobert. $9.0 + $5.029 + $8.250 = $22.279. Multiply by 125% and add $100,000 and you get to $27.848. Gobert makes $27.525, so that works by $323,000. Checking the Utah side, they get Johnson and Maxi. It adds up to $24 million and is easily within the range. Given the glut of small PG's, Dallas could add Brunson to the deal giving Utah Maxi/Brunson and Johnson. It doesn't change anything for OKC and Detroit. Dallas would just be adding elements to a deal that OKC and Detroit already agreed to.
NBA.com has not reported the James Johnson deal as final. One way of clearing a roster spot would be to send out one more player in that deal and get someone other than Johnson back. We see 2-way and 3-way deals expanded fairly regularly. We can't aggregate Johnson for a period of time once we get him, but if we don't have him yet he and player X off of our current roster could be turned into someone.
It doesn't have to be a a free agent. We could literally send out salary ranging from Brunson all the way up to THJ. To get the returning salary number you would add the outgoing to $14.029,000, not to the $16mm James Johnson makes. If this were to happen, we aren't taking Johnson and then flipping him. We have to go back to the original outgoing and add to that (but the receiving team has to be able to take Johnson plus the contract we add).
To show the math, let me give an example of someone who has been talked about here. This may not be realistic, but it shows the math. Instead of Johnson being the incoming to Dallas, we could add Maxi and bring back Gobert. $9.0 + $5.029 + $8.250 = $22.279. Multiply by 125% and add $100,000 and you get to $27.848. Gobert makes $27.525, so that works by $323,000. Checking the Utah side, they get Johnson and Maxi. It adds up to $24 million and is easily within the range. Given the glut of small PG's, Dallas could add Brunson to the deal giving Utah Maxi/Brunson and Johnson. It doesn't change anything for OKC and Detroit. Dallas would just be adding elements to a deal that OKC and Detroit already agreed to.