08-04-2021, 12:30 PM
(08-04-2021, 12:28 PM)F Gump Wrote: Don't forget there's another player in the DAL-TOR negotiation -- Bill Duffy (on behalf of Dragic).
Dragic can always try to facilitate a buyout at a discount, so that he can play elsewhere. And he can ask the Mavs "how much salary will you pay me, if I can get a buyout" to see how close he can come to being made whole.
That creates MANY more moving parts --
1 Mavs have to explore NY sign-and-trade for Bullock, in order to preserve their MLE and then use some or all of it on Dragic.
2 Mavs have to evaluate if they PREFER to move off Powell and his salary, as one of their objectives (in which case, they want to work harder for a trade)
3 Mavs have to decide if they prefer GD on a multi-year (or 1+1) deal, instead of an expiring 19M one.
4 Mavs have to decide what their preferred SNT would look like, and perhaps how they manufacture some filler salary (for example, do they trade Powell-Redick, with JJR going to a 3rd team?), and compare that to all the other possibilities.
There are a lot of angles in play here, even if it looks like a simple thing from afar.
This is astute and a good reminder. Many ways to "skin the cat" here.