2020-2021 ROSTER TALK: Archived

[Scott41theMavs]

That would be a lethal team.  But unless I am missing something, you have over 60 mil of salary coming in with 10 going out.  That means you are nearly 20 mil over the cap.  Also, guys like Dragic and Batum are probably getting close to MLE money and you don't have one of those (let alone two).

Its hard to see how you could land both Collins and Conley.  They are at least 50 mil coming in.  You are sending out Maxi and maybe Brunson to get Collins.  You would still need to dump at least 6 mil.  Maybe you could dump Powell for cheap?

If you can get Atlanta to take JRich/Maxi/Brunson for Collins and then do a three team deal with THJ for Conley you could do it (but getting both to happen seems slim).  In that case you would have the MLE, which is good because you traded away your bench.  That would give you a starting lineup of KP/Collins/DFS/Luka/Conley and a bench of Powell/Green/Burke and some exceptions.

If the Mavs could somehow trade KP for air, they would end up with a poop-ton more cap room. They could increase their caproom if trading involved bringing in less salary. 

Players we get in trade for KP could not be aggregated in a later trade. Ergo, I imagine that anything involving a sign and trade as opposed to cap room for our targets would involve a three-team trade with us, our target's team, and a team that "wants" KP.