(01-30-2022, 01:23 PM)SatnamSingh Wrote: The Mavs were not over the cap. They chose to operate over the cap so they could sign THJ and give Bullock the MLE, which is only available to over the cap teams.
They had something like >$15 mil in cap space. Could also have moved players like Powell or Maxi to get more space.
It was way more than that. If they let THJ and WCS walk while making the JRich trade, they would have had over 30 mil in cap space. The trick was to convince someone to come here. I think the biggest reason for the Nico/Kidd hires was to attract free agents in our last year with significant cap space. They obviously failed miserably in that effort. I still wonder how much they looked into DeRozan. I was sure that is where we were heading. I was not excited about it, but would have preferred to the status quo they went with.