Harrison Press Conference 2-10

[Kammrath]

Re: Contract length - You are partially correct.  I looked into this a bit more. It’s not that they are “unguaranteed”, they are only partially guaranteed… sort of…. To start with Dinwiddie only $10M of his last year is guaranteed… unless he plays in 50 games this year and next.  Then it becomes fully guaranteed.  On top of this he has up to almost $8m in bonuses he gets pay just for playing 50 games or more, 50% of playoff games, and advancing in playoffs.  Then for Bertans, his contract does extend on year longer than KPs, but only $5M is guaranteed that year.

When all is said and done:
If Dinwiddie gets his guarantee and hits his bonuses - the Mavs will pay him and Bertans approximately $110M total through the end of the 23/24 season.  
If he doesn’t hit any of this the mavs will pay two of them $94M through 23/24
If they kept KP the would have paid him $101M through 23/24

So maybe this saves them $7M through 23/24 if these guys are so bad they don’t hit their bonuses and we waive them because we’re willing to give them money just to go away.

Then back to the length of contract - Dinwiddie’s contract is the same length as KP’s, but Bertans does go one year longer.  And as mentioned before there is still a partial guarantee, so he is owed at least $5M in 24/25.  But to only pay him $5M he had to be so bad that the mavs just paid him to go away.

So best financial scenario, these guys are trash and we pay both a combined $100M stretched out to 24/25 compared to the $101M we owed KP through 23/24. But we could potentially end up paying them $126M through 24/25.  So this is at best a marginal cost savings over the same period of time, and for it to be a marginal cost savings these guys both have to be disappointments.

Only upside as I see it is that the Mavs REALLY value the unguaranteed portion of their contracts as assets in the final year.  Mark said it’s really bad next year but get’s better after that.  The only way that works is if he is already thinking about trading these guys the year before their contracts expire.  Then you have a trade chip that allows another team to get $9M in savings in 23/24 and another trade chip that allows for up to $11M in savings in 24/25.

Thanks for digging into those details. I was not aware of any of the minutiae!