2020-2021 ROSTER TALK: Archived

[SleepingHero]

I can't see how this works moneywise. Kemba is over 30 Mio - whom will we send out?

And it is against rule No.1.

It'd have to be in the summer where the Mavs would just need to send out WCS or perhaps even Powell, and renounce either JRich or THJ's hold if my math is correct.  They can still keep Melli/1 of THJ/JRich/Reddick's hold and make the trade. 

If the Mavs were to make the trade today and the only pieces were

DAL: Kemba
BOS: Horford
OKC: Powell+WCS

Dallas would just need to free 6.8 mil to get under the hard cap/lose 16 mil in salary, which can theoretically be done by renouncing a single caphold. 

I could be totally wrong. Perhaps someone who's more well versed in intricacies of the CBA could chime in, but from where I'm standing it'd be relatively easy for the Mavs to get Kemba in the offseason. Though doing so would cap them out and it'd essentially be their last big move they can make without touching the core. 


You do have a point regarding rule no.1, but Ainge has had quite the tough track record recently in trades. And getting Kemba for peanuts would be about as low risk/high reward there'd be, and Kemba doesn't have the locker room cancer attitude that Rondo had.