Trade & Free Agency 2026/2027

[SleepingHero]

That's the presumption in a straight up deal with Detroit.  But, this seems destined to be at least three teams between Detroit, Memphis and Dallas and maybe expanded to include OKC and Collins S&T from LAC.  In that case, A.J. Johnson covers the Sasser salary and preserves the BAE.   

One of the things I find interesting in terms of figuring out what exceptions we do/don't still have.  Collins, Aldama and Gafford (or Klay) all make very similar salaries.  We assume Aldama has to go into the TPE because we haven't heard of any more outgoing salary from Dallas.  But additions to the multi-team deal might change our thinking.

Collins to DET 

Sasser+Mathurin+Aldama to DAL (+1.7m) 

Klay+ Gafford to LAC (+8.9m) 

Stewart+AJ Johnson to MEM (+1.2m)

Is legal and works for all teams. Doesn’t change any really reported deals except adding the Mathurin piece. Klay makes a little sense there given they are expecting to lose Beal and they just lost Bogdanovic to the the Rockets definitely means they have a hole there.

This preserves both TPE’s for DAL and the BAE. The real issue is now the Mavs have roster spaces to worry about with a full MLE to work with.