Richaun Holmes - all he contributes is a contract for trading

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I'm fine with them not trading assets for a center.  I think we should see what we have this season with Derrick Lively before we trade more draft assets.  I do think there were players available in free agency though that could help us.  Cuban's unwillingness to go into the luxury tax is what disturbs me.  We're currently 15th in the league in salary which sounds Ok at first.  When you look at the teams spending less than us, however, only Memphis looks like a potential contender.  Every other team with a reasonable hope of contention is spending more this season than the Mavericks.  

I am less concerned about the center position simply because we do hopefully have the future solution on the roster now with Derrick Lively.

If the goal of the summer though was to do everything possible to improve our roster this coming season, then I think the summer was disappointing.  Mark Cuban's budget restraints got in the way of more progress.

They tried to go into the tax for Thybulle. I don't mind them dodging it this year if the remaining players they can sign aren't worth it. It will delay the repeater tax which could help them spend more in a future offseason when there is a better opportunity to add talent.