Trade & Free Agency 2026/2027

[KillerLeft]

The Mavs currently have about ~38 mil of tax room. After using the MLE, absorbing Aldama, and signing Tarik, and getting Sasser, they'll be right at that tax line, which means using the TPE will put them into the tax.

Now does Dumont care about that? We will see.

Whether he does or doesn't care, I'd personally try to put off paying tax one more year, at least. As long as possible. Just for the strategy of it, not to save real life money. 

I guess my thinking is that looking around, I'm not sure I see a free agent left worth offering the full MLE, except for maybe Mathurin, who nobody around here seems to want, so...how about not using it, then, and you just stay opportunistic with the big TPE between now and the deadline, with the flexibility to afford using it if/when the right opportunity comes up?