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[Smitty]

Related to THJ, only the pool of GMs from teams with capspace are relevant for Mavs. Not many of those around. It also doesn't only take one GM. If there is no competition, why would that one GM pay Mavs for the privilige to take THJ into capspace? Everyone knows:
a) THJ is not in Mavs plans as he is way overpaid for what he provides for Mavs
b) Mavs need to save salary if they want to retain DJJ over the taxMLE salary
c) THJ strength is shooting only but only in volume, as he is not terribly efficient doing it. These kind of players are putting up numbers on bad/average teams, but rarely have a significant role on contenders

Related to DJJ, teams know Mavs can't offer more than MLE and that Mavs are likely to find a way to offer same money up to MLE, which will make DJJ stay with Mavs. So the cleanest path to him for non Mavs teams, if they really want him, is to offer him more than MLE. The advantage is, that only cap space teams can offer more than MLE and most of those teams don't need a player like DJJ. Still, it only takes one :) Examples of (non rookie contract) players from last summer that got huge increase of salary:
- Bruce Brown went from 6 mil to 20 mil
- Max Strus went from min to approximately 15.5 mil average

Yeah, I’m not going to go over the THJ positive and negatives. Plenty of people have covered every angle of that one. 

Thanks for those two names though. I guess I could have done a bit of research instead of just saying a blanket statement like “very few, if any”. 

I did go look at their stats the previous year and salary. Both aren’t in the same boat as DJJ but Brown is a pretty close comp.

In his age 26 season he went from a career 9/5/2 to 11.5/4/3.4 on a championship team. Playoffs 12/4/2. His defense being his calling card like DJJ.

After his rookie contract was up, he signed a 1 year QO with BKN and then a 2 year TPMLE with Denver. Opted out of the 6M PO and struck gold when Indy paid him basically 1 year 22M to steal him away from the Champs.

Again, not the same situation. Never a vet min player and arguably a much better 2-way player on a championship team. But close enough to have some concern if the Mavs win the ship. 

We can all worry about that in the offseason though. I trust Nico and Lindsey will figure it out. I personally would be more concerned if he had a career year or something but he’s basically doing what he’s always done. Just that he’s exactly what this team was missing.

Edit: Per 36:
Last year: 12.9 pts | 6.2 rbs | 1.4 ast | 1.2 stl | 1.5 blk
This year: 13.3 pts | 5.0 rbs | 1.5 ast | 1.1 stl | 1.0 blk