2020-2021 ROSTER TALK: Archived

[Scott41theMavs]

Here's an addendum to what I wrote yesterday (also posted in the Brunson thread):


The somewhat unusual thing about Brunson is he has a super-cheap non-guaranteed 4th year next season.  If Dallas elects to pay him that amount, he is UFA the summer of 22 and we have no control.  One way of mitigating that is to give him an extension, but that is limited to 120% of the average salary or about $12 million.  We have examples of similar PG's making more than that.  So, probably not a solution.


Your post reminded me of another possible solution.  I need to look this up, but I think we could make Jalen free this summer by foregoing our option.  That would make Jalen RFA this summer with a small hold and we can pay him whatever we want.  This doesn't happen often (four year deals for 2nd rounders aren't the norm).  Houston and Chandler Parsons went through this back in 2014.  The choice was to pay him his small non-guaranteed 4th year and probably lose him the next season as a UFA.  Or, Houston could make him RFA that summer and presumably retain him after doing a bunch of other free agent signings.  We all know how that worked out.

That would potentially solve the 22 UFA issue.  It would just cost Cuban some extra money in the 21-22 season.  As you point out, we don't have to have cap room in 21 to do this.  Brunson's cap hold it just a little bit more than his 2021 non-guaranteed salary. 

What I don't understand in both of your posts is the "we don't have the cap room in '21 to do this" part. If they went the Chandler route, wouldn't they have just the difference between his cap hold and his non-guaranteed salary affecting things and then could pay him whatever salary needed as you said earlier? It would seem that cap room then isn't an issue at all. They could sign free agents (renouncing THJ and/or JRich and/or Johnson, who btw has no future here for sure) or re-sign THJ and/or JRich, and then re-sign Brunson over-the-cap, right? Don't we have his Bird rights by making him an RFA, since he's been here three years?

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Äh JJ was resigned 4 years ago, Curry was resigned, Devin was resigned, Yogi was kinda resigned before he asked out. 
It's quite the opposite.

Exactly. Brunson is the youngest (other possibly than Yogi) of those guys, with the most potential for continued improvement (e.g. he's far better this year than last).