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[F Gump]

Just think that many people are still stuck in the mid 2010s when it comes to player salaries. For me it comes down to one question. Is Green a player that should be getting 20-30 minutes per game? If the answer is yes he is at least an MLE level player.

Actually I don't think so. The issue is a LIMITED amount to spend, combined with the fact that (in all likelihood) you have 2 players making 40M apiece that eats up half your possible payroll.

Now you have to weigh EACH added contract, not in light of "what does it take to keep him," but also (and maybe mostly) in light of "will he give me what I need, for paying him that pct of the total payroll?"

I posted a possible way to look at how you spend that 170M, and it's not easy. While my numbers aren't gospel, they do reflect the issue of how all contracts impact each other. If you spend 18M a year on Josh the Scrub, you can't spend it on your 3rd best player that you need to be super productive. (The same applies to someone like Ayton and his 33M, by the way. Unless he's reallllly good, that will be killer slice out of the payroll.) Looking at it for what it is, it's easy to see what a mess Cuban has made of the payroll. And it's hard to build a team without money to spend.

Plugging Mavs current numbers into a reasonable way to split payroll....
40-star  LUKA 40
40-star  KYRIE  40
20-starter and strong key player  THJ  18
20-starter and strong key player  [BERTANS 17 - alternate DB sw 4.5 + MLE player]
10   MAXI 11
10   BULLOCK 10
5    GREEN 5
5    MCGEE 6
5    #10 PICK   5
6x2 each - all minimums  HARDY