2019-20 Around the NBA: Archived

[KillerLeft]

@"KillerLeft" there's always teams who need to dump money and this offseason there are more bad contracts than there were last year. The question is whether or not the Mavs will take on money absent a superstar. My guess is 99% they won't until the Giannis situation is resolved and I bet he gives the Bucks a year which means this thing is going to be a story for an entire year.

I expect Mavs will instead do what they always do in these situations which is clear space for 2021 and focus on short-term deals.

I don't know about the 2021 thing. Maybe, maybe not. But I'll agree that they'll avoid taking on "bad money" and I'll go one step further:

Don't flame me, but are we still sure about the conventional wisdom that "Cuban is willing to spend whatever it takes to win"???

I mean, they haven't paid tax (or even operated as an over the cap team, really) in a LOOOOOOONG time. Now, I fully understand that adding salary to this mess they've given us since the title would've been ludicrous, so I don't blame them for that, but we're slowly but surely getting back to a situation where (we assume) Cuban will need to shell out some tax money to keep the team arrow pointing upward. Part of me thinks he'll do it, but are we sure? I don't think I'm sure.