Trade & FA 2025-26: Free Agency Starts 5pm CST/6pm EST

[KillerLeft]

Well, I picked a good day to talk Raptors. How does the board feel about it?

DAL: RJ Barrett ($27.7M/$29.6M), Jacob Poeltl ($19.5M), Ochai Agbaji ($6.3M-Expiring), '27 FRP, '28 FRP Swap, '29 FRP, '30 FRP Swap
TOR: Anthony Davis ($54.1M), Brandon Williams ($2.2M)

This is Poeltl's extension:




Mavs roster after this hypothetical:


Kyrie | Nemby* | DLO | Hardy
Max | Klay | Agbaji
Barrett | Naji | Kelly*
Flagg | PJW | Martin
Lively | Gafford | Poeltl | Powell | Cisse*

Waive: Exum
*Two-Way

Under no circumstances would I do a deal that results in Poeltl ending up here. That would be a conversation ender for me, in the Mavs' shoes. Any TOR scenario would have to include a plan for him to go somewhere else in order for expiring money to land here. Once that hurdle is cleared, the draft capital starts to look attractive. But, if the result is going to be sizable bad salary like Poeltl's, I'd prefer just to have Davis make that money here until his contract runs out. That would officially be missing the forest for the trees, imho.

One of the better aspects of the ATL deal that we're not discussing enough is the combination of Porizingis and Kennard expiring at year's end. That's kind of important, given where things are.