2020-2021 ROSTER TALK: Archived

[cjeter24]

@"loki" I don't agree. Hawks have a lot of contracts on the books with additional big deals in the way. A max Collins deal plus a max Trae extension is going to put them deep into luxury tax 1 yr from now unless they start finding ways to shed money. Hunter, Huerter will get paid in a couple years. So somebody is getting moved unless they want to have a 170 million dollar cap sheet.

Now they could move a guy like Gallo but maybe they don't want to. He is a guy you could keep one more year and then move. Maxi is an example of a cheap rotation player. So I don't think it's a done deal at all that they want to match a max offer especially if they don't get past the Sixers.

It was pretty public that Collins was available for the right price at the TDL. I don't think he was moved bc they knew the same type of offers would still be there in the summer.

Credit to Atlanta for building a nice deep roster. 
Collins is very replaceable there. They have a nice crop of forwards. Are they as good as Collins? No. but they are solid. 

So when the money stuff comes into play, Collins is a complete luxury. It would be smart for them to cash in on him now, get some legit value out of him. It's about asset management and roster building with him and they can get buy without him. 

For other teams tho Collins is a much bigger need. Rebounding and rim rolling are massive holes here. He'd be irreplaceable here. 

I think Collins is very much in play to be in a SNT trade somewhere. I think that's the most likely scenario actually. But I'm doubtful it's the Mavs at this point.

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Does Kemba count - (I don't know how I feel) - because a trade of Richardson and JJ Reddick signed and traded for $17.133 million gets you Kemba at $36.02 million (couple of rounded #'s). I could see Dallas getting a couple of late 1st round picks out of that deal.

Then a trade of Powell, WCS and Burke gets you a $23.53~ million window to get Collins. In my estimation This deal would require a pick to OKC (maybe 2) and a pick to Atlanta.

At which point Dallas' payroll would skyrocket roughly $30 million BEFORE taking into account THJ and the full MLE...

I'm not sure about where the #s lineup in your scenario. But Mavs won't able to take a player back in a SNT or use the full MLE if they are above the apron. I think it's projected somewhere around 130-135 mill IIRC. 

Money gets tight pretty quick.