FA: Klay Thompson Comes to Dallas| 3yrs/50mil

[SleepingHero]

It helps that PJ will be asked to be the 4th scorer this year instead of 3rd.

If we take the scoring average for Luka over the last 5 years he’s at 30.2 ppg. Having to do less, I’d expect that to be a good number, down from 33.9 last year on a whopping 37.5 mpg. Kyrie had his lowest scoring output in 5 years at 25.6. That seems repeatable. Klay’s ppg total was his lowest since year 2 in the league, but still averaged an efficient 17.9 ppg. PJ has been around 12 ppg almost every year and almost hit that number with the Mavs, despite poor shooting from 3 (11.7 ppg | 31% from 3). Lively finished his rookie year at 8.8 ppg.

If we’re conservative the scoring balance could look like this:

Luka - 30 ppg
Kyrie - 25 ppg
Klay - 18 ppg
PJW - 12 ppg
Lively - 10 ppg

That’s 95 ppg from your starters. And none of them are being asked to do anything out of the norm.

Me seeing that written down and realizing the Mavs have a legit starting 5