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I was actually assuming straight trade before 7/1 and extend later when allowed...wink wink.  I was trying to get the deal done in the current season and the extension in the new season once he's secured here.  I can certainly see the benefit to Green to knowing his number before the trade (extend and trade).  On the flipside, he has to agree to playing for his PO amount in June to get to do it the way you are outlining.  He'd have to do that without knowing with certainty that he'll be traded in July, so either way, there is a bit of trust involved.  I agree that $33mm per year for 3 years is a good number.  The way I was doing it came in at a similar number, but I wasn't multiplying off of the trade kicker.

I'm not sure how to get GS HUGE salary reduction either.  Doing this in 23/24 requires $22mm of outgoing.  There are plenty of ways to get them less salary than the outgoing, but not dramatically less.  There is also the trick of Dallas taking on excess salary in a Green deal and getting all of their other business done and staying under about $180mm.  BTW, I've read the new 0% trade spread rule for teams over the second apron doesn't kick in until 24/25 and is a 10% spread in 23/24.  I'm not presuming GS will take our dead weight, but rather a functional player or two.  Another advantage of doing this in 22/23 is neither team has to worry about the new trade spread rules for next season.

So your basic framework is to do a Wood-like deal? Then chase the extension later when it can be 140%? I'm not really enamored with the idea of paying DG extension money starting at 44.4M (that's the 140% number) AND I don't want to trade assets for him without having that issue already put to bed.

You said about my idea that "he has to agree to playing for his PO amount in June to get to do it the way you are outlining.  He'd have to do that without knowing with certainty that he'll be traded in July."-- But no, that's not my idea.

My basic framework is that you just bite the bullet and do it ALL in June. That's the e&t. DG opts in, in conjunction with a 2-year extension added, and a trade to Dallas that adds TK dollars to the mix. All done at once. There's no wink-wink, no trust, nothing promised for later.

I don't think DG will cooperate unless the TK is paid. That's my starting premise. $31,724,159 is the total for the PO year.

One of the things that pushes me to June is the opportunity to sidestep the 2nd apron issues entirely. Every dollar of savings for GS in the trade matching is a bump for the Mavs of the same amount, unless you bring in team 3 (which then raises the cost of doing business, since they want to be compensated too). Do that in July and it's probably way more complicated with 2nd apron rules. Using your 10%, in June, it takes about 25.3M to match DG, but in July they have to send out 28.7+M, and that difference probably matters a lot to GS when their marginal cost for an extra 3.5Mish in payroll is probably another 22M or so in tax.

Of course, every extra dollar that CUBAN has to pay in tax probably increases the iffiness of whether he would be interested at all, so there's that.