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

[DanSchwartzgan]

Some random thoughts this morning...

Another non Mav observation. Still waiting for final numbers, but bumber of teams currently in tax has increased substantially from last season. Miami, Minnesota, Portland and OKC were the only tax teams last season. Minnesota and OKC are out of tax, but Lakers, Clippers, Toronto, Houston, GSW, New Jersey, Philadelphia and several others are deep in the tax atm. Who knows, if some of them will be looking to cut their salaries by TDL

One possible reason is teams expect to be rescued by the escrow system.  I can't recall where I read this, but my recollection is teams get a pro-rata reduction in the salary that counts against the tax depending on where the escrow number hits.  Assuming I'm remembering this correctly, it means a team could be a few million over technically and end up a little under because BRI comes in less than anticipated and the actual salaries paid count less against the tax.