12-16-2020, 02:19 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-16-2020, 02:23 PM by KillerLeft.)
(12-16-2020, 02:15 PM)omahen Wrote: While I agree with everything you said, I don't get your love for Johnson. He is a vet min player. Plenty of those around. Besides his limited role playing production, his only value is his expiring contract. If we don't trade him there is absolutely no tragedy if he leaves in free agency.
Sorry to be unclear. I thought I was agreeing with you there.
I'm looking at him like an expiring contract as an ASSET. Yes, letting him expire is valuable, but only if it creates cap space. Since we're rapidly approaching a world in which the chances of acquiring a free agent good enough to justify losing BOTH Richardson AND THJ aren't great, I'd say we're approaching a world in which the Mavs are officially operating over the cap.
In that scenario, I'd call letting Johnson expire a "loss" because you'd be losing the ability to add salary (while over the cap) at his contractual level...that's my point. Again, I thought I was agreeing with your point, so I might have misunderstood.