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[DanSchwartzgan]

I am not sure about your valuation. Kyrie is a FA and even if we "mask" this deal before official start of FA, Mavs don't really have a lot of leverage, if Kyrie wants to be elsewhere. And I think moving Kyrie will happen only, if he comes to Mavs and says he wants to be elsewhere. Mavs are not in position to shop him around, as he is a FA. They can only work with his guys to get him to destination he wants to get to. Historically, the SnT didn't bring much value. You can reject trash for the purpose of salary matching. Philly took just Richardson from Miami in the Butler SnT, while Miami worked with two other teams to send out appropriate remaining salary. Toronto only got Achiuwa from Miami, combined with expiring Dragic. Looking at this, Miami seem to be SnT masters  Chicago paid Thad Young a future pick for DeRozan. New Orleans took 1 SRP (!!!) for Lonzo. 

All together, I think Herro+Lowry is best you can hope for with Miami eating any additional needed salaries.

This may all be moot since the Dameris tweet turned out to be different than I was hoping (thanks for posting).

I wonder if the calculus isn't different now given the limits of the CBA.  Miami sits at $179mm counting their pick and empty slots.  And that only fills 13 spots on their roster.  They'd have to send out more salary than they take back as this time they don't have mid-sized expiring contracts like Dragic and Richardson to move (great examples BTW).  There aren't really any viable threats among good teams to force Dallas's hand.  The Mav's can just say no if they don't get their price.

I'd also point out that Toronto was done with Lowry and the relationship between Butler and Philly was trash.  That dynamic doesn't exist between Dallas and Irving.  I think we got him at a quite reasonable price and I'm only looking at this because 1. Everyone wants to go to Miami and his timeline aligns well with the three years remaining on the Butler and Bam contracts (it makes more sense to me than Phoenix or LAL) and 2. There might be an opportunity to 'flip' him for more than we paid for him while at the same time.  

FG points out that this needs to be a 23/24 trade.  That means it can be as simple as Irving for Herro/Lowry/Jovic and pick if Kyrie gets his max (as long as Dallas stays under the second Apron).  Miami would be hard capped, and would have to fill out their roster with the room created by this trade.  

To be clear, I'm not interested in giving up Irving for Herro/Lowry.  I like Herro.  I think he's basically a 23 year old Zach LaVine (with better on/off numbers).  But, the reason to take on Lowry in my mind is to get Jovic and the draft capital.  Miami's 2028 and the Dallas 2027 might be super valuable picks given the age and/or contract status of their stars.  Part of the reason for doing this would be to use those picks to add another piece.