04-21-2023, 04:33 PM
(04-21-2023, 07:54 AM)DanSchwartzgan Wrote: Door number 3 is someone like Green. There is a rule change in the new CBA that helps make this easier to pull off. Green's extension (starts in 24/25 if he accepts the PO for next season) can get a 40% bump instead of the old 20% bump. So, he'd be able to get something over $38mm to start. Dallas needs to come up with about $20.5mm in outgoing salary to make this happen..
I don't like those numbers for an aging Green, but I don't think the rules permit it anyhow. Obviously we have to see what the new CBA says when it emerges, but if the CBA change to 140% is for "extensions" in general without any alteration in extend-and-trade rules, then this wouldn't be allowed.
Under current rules, the first year of the extension in e&t is limited to 105% and subsequent seasons in the extension to 5% raises.
I would assume that both Green and Mavs, if he did come to Dallas, would want some assurance it isn't one-and-done, so an extension would have to be part of the trade, rather than at a later time, which then brings those limits into play.
There's also a trade kicker.
In total, if we assume the total years in Dallas become 3 (existing, plus 2), it's right at 3 yrs 100M (to be exact, $100,010,411) which feels like a contract that might feel make everyone happy.
One issue, however, is that GS will be looking for HUGE salary reduction (or otherwise, they might as well keep him and take another final shot at a ring). Not sure how Dallas does that, while also satisfying the various financial implications of the new rules, and also the trade-matching rules for an over-cap (and perhaps over-2nd-apron) team, but I suspect there can be solutions if that's what all the parties want to do.