06-05-2023, 01:13 PM
(06-05-2023, 12:12 PM)F Gump Wrote: I understand your point, and you are right that DB may be the better trade asset than THJ because of his potential for salary savings (17M on the cap becomes 4.4M with a s-w, which is huge). RB may have as much value too (10.8M on the cap can become 1.8M with a S-W). If you can work a buyout where they take a small reduction, you might increase the savings even more.
But the Mavs have salary issues of their own that a Bertans s-w might have to solve. And they might want to use Wood in a SNT if some team emerges where a trade including Wood moves the needle. And they might want to have a full MLE.
It's a complex equation, and they can't do it all. But somewhere in all of it is the question of how they assemble the best roster possible, I would hope. Maybe Cuban's working "hard cap" may be Apron 2 rather than Apron 1?
Have the stretch-waive rules changed? Pretty sure you have to guarantee the full salary to s-w a player. You can´t s-w a buyout. That means Bullock would be 3.6M over three years and Bertans would be 6.6M over five years. S-W Bertans or Bullock never made any sense. THJ makes no sense due to his declining contract actually becoming an asset against a rising cap. The only buyout candidate imho is Joel at 2.7M over five years.