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[F Gump]

"WB for THJ/Bertans/Powell no picks?"

LA could use the shooting that's for sure and THJ is similar to Buddy Love who they've be linked to.

Would put you the Mavs at just over $97m committed next season.  Projected cap is $134m.  Not the greatest free agency class.  @"F Gump" could tell you the mechanisms of using the cap space in conjunction with resigning Wood (assuming no extension) with bird rights.   .

Those aren't the numbers ... and the real numbers don't leave you with any cap room.

That's assuming you intend to keep Wood, so he's either already extended (presumably 15-17M) or you have Bird Rights until you sign him (which will cost you even more).

The current cap total they would have in 2023 after such a trade, assuming Wood is not extended and using the $21.5M cap hit for his Bird Rights, would be $133M. His actual salary, higher or lower, would be used once he signed.

The benefit would be to move off of THJ and Bertans contracts and save Cuban some money, but otherwise, nothing else would really be gained. But if THJ and Bertans don't offer any value, that savings would get more and more tempting for Cuban as the season goes along, I would think.

... However, from a LA angle, a THJ-Bertans package could be huge. Their weakness is an enormous lack of shooting ability, and THJ-Bertans would seem to be just what the doctor ordered. Powell's energy would also help them, I think. Since the Mavs aren't in the biz of trying to rescue LA from the dumpster, it seems to me like the Mavs should be able to extract more than the carcass of RW in return, so that it can end up as a win-win.

While we're at it, we can see the math on doing that sort of package (THJ/Bertans/Powell) for Hayward-Rozier instead (should something like that be available). Instead of RW's $0M next year, they'd have almost $55M of cap payroll for the duo, landing them close to $190M in total payroll for all 14-15 players, and buried DEEP in tax (tax bill would be around $75M). So that looks like a non-starter of an idea when weighed from that angle.