2020-2021 ROSTER TALK: Archived

[DanSchwartzgan]

That’s an important point and i do not think we will go into LT for 21/22. Mainly because of the impending Luka max though the following year and not because Cuban won’t go into LT(i think he will when we have all the championship pieces in place).

Having said that, there’s just not much available in FA this summer. Maybe there’s a specific situation like Dragic let’s us know he will come on board for the MLE. Outside of something like that i think if we were to bring in multiple guys(now) that we need to pay then we would just make arrangements this summer to make everyone fit. Bringing in Bogi would almost certainly mean either Hardaway or Richardson walks. And with KP off the books and we had Collins and Gallo then likely Maxi would play more 5 and there would be less a need to bring in someone expensive. 

Overall i guess we need to be mindful of the cap ramifications, but with so many teams with space and so few decent players available I think it’s more important to bring in the talent we need first then figure it out later.

Just to be clear, I like your trade.  I was making a general statement/admonition that there is a limit to what we can take on.  Something involving Love for expiring contracts raises the same issue.

I put your deal in as KP/JRich for Gallo/Bogdan/Collins.  It is one of the few KP deals where the Projected Wins for Dallas goes up.  Setting aside for a moment whether it is fair or not, I plugged the 21/22 numbers into a spreadsheet assuming we max Collins at $28mm and retain THJ at $15mm.  That takes us to $131mm give or take.  Spending the MLE (there would still be a big hole at C) would take us right to the hard cap.  To your point, we could dump WCS if we are going to sign Holmes or someone similar (or S/W Powell).  So, this specific
deal can be made to work.

I wonder if we'd actually be better off shooting for Okongwu instead of Gallo?  Obviously Gallo is more of a win-now player.  But that gives us 3 guys in Collins, Gallo and Maxi who's best position is PF (and leaves us with Powell/WCS and maybe the MLE at C).  Okongwu might end up being a defensive stud at C.  You can live with Powell/WCS as backups.  The other benefit to doing the deal like this is you can work under the cap with the Collins cap hold and have between $13mm and $17mm in space depending on what you do with WCS (or room for a 0-6 Max if you move on from THJ).  I think I like Okwongwu/Space more than I like Gallo.

Edit:  Okongwu's agent is Jordan Gertler who works for Excel (Schwartz).