03-25-2021, 03:52 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-25-2021, 03:53 PM by dirkfansince1998.)
(03-25-2021, 03:48 PM)F Gump Wrote: This ^ is spot on.
Once you include new deals for J-Rich and THJ, the Mavs have no cap room this summer and then they have the big MLE to spend (about 9.5M). Keeping those 2 players, at similar prices to what they are getting now, puts the Mavs right around the cap. That assumes they exercise their cheap option on WCS, which seems like a safe bet.
If either gets a wild offer, the Mavs have about the same cap room they would have spent to spend on some outside player in free agency. (But they end up with the cap room MLE instead.)
It's likely to be an MLE summer, where they look to land a well-valued bargain deal or two, lock them up for 2-3 years, and call it a day.
Thing is that they could have added a player for Johnson´s contract in a trade and still kept both JRich and THJ. Depending on the exact numbers even with the possibility to use the full MLE.
Makes no sense not to do in a no free agency scenario.