2021-2022 MAVS NEWS: 4th in West | WCF loss [ARCHIVED]

[DanSchwartzgan]

For the cap/CBA experts.

Current situation: Lack of roster spots in an over the cap situation with an unbalanced roster. As far as I know the Mavs can simply waive Moses Brown. What would happen if the Mavs do the same with some of the end of the bench vets (thinking about Burke). Any punishment (hard cap or something similar)?

Moses gets $500k of his $1.7mm non-guaranteed contract.  Spotrac indicates that was activated when he was traded from OKC to Boston in June.

You just carry Burke's salary on the books.  It doesn't impact rosters.  Rosters are expanded right now anyway.  It can be a S/W or a straight cut (both impacting the Mav's salary sheet for more than one year).  Or, Burke and Dallas could negotiate something similar to what we are talking about with Dragic.

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But, if the $19 million angle is actually true, then it has to be one of two things: either Dallas has something else going for this off-season that they still want to accomplish or Cuban literally doesn't want to raise the level of guaranteed money he'll be out of pocket for this season. 

Three possibilities there, imo, and two of them could potentially be good. The other would be sad, sad, sad. But, it's not our money!

I think we can put the "Cuban is cheap" version of this to rest.  The issue isn't that Dragic is costing $19mm.  He's not.  You have to look at his net cost and we have to send out $14.4mm to match.  So, the net cost is only $5mm in a trade matched situation.  There is no version where we are taking on an extra $19mm to get Dragic.