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

[DanSchwartzgan]

I dont trust Cato's sources in general regarding trades. But he only said CHI is interested in Kleber. Who knows what the Mavs stance is on losing Kleber, and paying Lauri way above the TPE. Do they even want him for a contract above the TPE?

And would they want to lose Maxi. When Stein dropped the Lauri news a week ago, he mentioned the TPE. TPE Deal = no Maxi

Tyler had a fantastic idea that nets both LM and GD for the same $14.4ish of out going salary.  To review, the outgoing salary matches Dragic, but not all of it goes to Toronto.  Some piece goes to Chicago and Markkanen fits into our TPE on a three year deal.  Tyler’s presumption was Powell, Josh and Moses after hearing the aggregation theory Hollinger put out there.

I’ve tried to add to the conversation saying there are Maxi based deals that also work.  Again, some salary goes to Chicago and some goes to Toronto.  We can come up with a dozen different versions that work.  The specific deal isn’t the point.

Some will say, “but wait, isn’t LM demanding $15mm”?  That ship has sailed.  Plus, if that were the deal, it would be done by now.  You can match LM with Maxi and get him a deal averaging $15mm.  No need to wait and no need to aggregate Moses.  In fact, there is a way to send Maxi and Moses together right now without it being an aggregated deal as Chicago has a TPE to cover Moses.  But that isn’t the holdup or it would be done.  The holdup is they are trying to do a two-fer with Moses part of the outgoing.  That deal has to either be aggregated or you need bodies or salaries that aren’t attractive to one at least one of the parties.