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[SleepingHero]

Assume all the required disclosures...I don't think Kyrie is leaving...I don't think a trade to LAL is likely ect. ect.

Are we missing an in-between option here.  Just thinking out loud as I don't have time to fully develop it:

1. Teams with cap room will have to use it or miss out on tax payments next season.
2. The FA market isn't great.
3. LA doesn't have to send all of their garbage to Dallas in a Kyrie deal.  There will be teams who might take a year of Beasley and Bamba to fill their cap.
4. LAL has the 17th pick to sweeten any such third party deal
5. It is probably a bad idea to count on double S&T's in a deal this big
6. FG tells us there will be a 110% trade premium for going over the first apron

I think there are probably multiple ways to work out something where Kyrie ends up in LA without having to depend on any of the S&T guys coming here from LA.  Beasley and Bamba and Vandy and 17 (once signed) can get Irving to $38.6mm using the 110% rule.  LA would have between $43mm and $53mm  to keep Rui and Reaves and sign minimums to finish out the roster.   

Dallas can pick and choose what to take from all of that and send what they don't want to a cap room team.

Does Dallas want only Vandy and cap room with Bamba and Beasley going elsewhere?  What will Poeltl get this summer?

How about Vandy, Bamba and the pick stays in Dallas and we send Beasley away and take back a $16.5mm TPE (plus the MLE).  Now we have 10 and 17 and we have our backup 5 in Bamba and starting 'big wing' in Vandy and whatever else you can add with the TPE and the MLE.  

Nothing is going to look good in any Kyrie gone scenario.  But, I think there is a world were we can add some quality depth AND stay relatively young.

I always appreciate your creative insights on any potential scenario. Especially since it's always grounded.

But if Kyrie is gone and the Mavs don't get back at least 2 starter level guys, the Luka era is over. 10+17 and scraps isn't going to net any good star that doesn't have major issues. 16.5 TPE is just air that isn't really useful as teams aren't just going to hand away a good player just because of tax ramifications.

The way I see it, ANY Laker deal that doesn't involve all their firsts, Reeves+Rui (which we know won't happen), is effectively throwing in the towel and the Mavs should trade Luka. 

I'm just at that point. We need home runs. Not striking out but getting a couple of base steals.