2020-2021 ROSTER TALK: Archived

[Mavs2021]

1. Given the nature of RFA players and the risk associated with going after them AND the Mavs historical failures in FA I would avoid both

2. I'd try to resign both. We can always trade either for a pivot later if need be. Further, the Mavs have been rolling for 2 months now and it isn't a surprise that we've been the most healthy during this stretch. I know the beginning of the year left a bad taste in all our mouths, but perhaps Donnie knew what he was doing and the teams current construction is better than we all previously thought.

2B. Does this mean I think the team is perfect and doesn't need upgrades? Obviously not. But I'm hopping on team continuity and get better through trades than try our luck in FA. 

3. I believe in order to get to Collin's max we'd need to renounce both THJ and JRich's hold, meaning we couldn't bring either back. So it's really a question of John Collins OR JRich/THJ.

Collins starting max salary must be around ~$28M.

Powell + Kleber + Green combined make ~$22.2M. We offer them that package plus 2025 + 2027 unprotected.

Is Atlanta really saying NO, because they´d have to use Powell as a back-up C for two years?

They´d have to either pay Collins the max or find a $20M player (their capspace after Collins) that beats Kleber + Green + two unprotected first round picks (plus their own MLE, which they lose if they use capspace).


Mavs re-sign Richardson + THJ. Offer Theis the full MLE.

Doncic/Brunson
Richardson/THJ
DFS/Minimum veteran
Collins/Melli
Porzingis/Theis

I don´t know who the player is, but the S&T option is what the Mavs will try to do imho. Question is do you want to give up multiple 1st round picks to do it.