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But heck, if they want to press the emergency button, I'd love to take Bridges off their hands. They can have the pleasure of Maxi+OMax and heck lets give them a first or two. I'm feeling generous 

Not that NY would trade him, but let's say they would. It creates an interesting situation.

In theory you want him. In reality I'd wager you really wouldn't, even without the FRP.

It's about salary. That trade doesn't work as a salary match (and isn't even close). That's because MB has a sizable salary (compared to his on-court value) of 2 yrs $48M. Given his actual play, that salary creates a huge value problem, both for trade value and also in general in fitting him into a hard capped payroll. 

Just try to figure out how you match the salary. The good news is that the Mavs have assembled a roster full of players with modest salaries and good values - but that makes trading for any player making above 20M a potential issue of it costing too much outgoing talent. Here it takes an outgoing of $24M plus $2M for each extra player, and assembling that $24M+ salary package would put massive holes in the Mavs team that I believe would be deal killers.