2019-2020 Mavs Trade Discussion + Salary Chart

[ItsGoTime]

The big question is, do we really need to spend our assets for something mediocre now, or should we wait till summer and go for big game hunting. We will have 2020 1st, 2025 1st, GSW 2nd and decent contracts in the summer. We could add assets by taking Hood, Felicio or similar for our TE and by trading Lee for worse salary (Dedmon, Dieng). 

For me: 
- Iggy, Ariza, Harkless, Gay, Hutchinson, McCaw, Crowder represent very marginal improvement not really worth any assets. 
- Ingles, Prince, Oubre, Winslow are not realistic to happen
- Bembry, Culver, Bridges, Anunoby are young prospects cherrished by their teams, so probably very expensive to obtain
- RoCo: great upgraded version of DFS to have, but is he really worth all our assets? We would still need to get a good secondary facilitator, which will be even more difficult. I guess Dieng combinations are off the table now (or were never really interesting for Minny or Dallas)
- Porter: huge risk. I am only doing it if there is a big prize involved
- Young: a little better than first group of guys for me, but I wouldn't pay much for him. Wright and GSW 2nd is more than fair value. Lee+GSW2nd is good.

Than we have a group of guys that are a little less D but adds secondary facilitating (or just excellent shooting in case of Bertans):
- Bogi
- Galinari
- Bertans
- Fournier

We could also think a bit more long term with some cheaper and younger options:
- Beasley, Lonnie Walker, J. Hernangomez,...

I think we might be able to kill 2 birds with 1 stone by going the Chi route. Sat hasn't been someone who is talked about as a trade piece, but from some of the reports OPJ is one they would love to move on from. I think OPJ could be a better starter than DFS, just on a HORRIBLY bad contract. I don't need to add LM or WCJ on the trade I previously talked about. However, I think bringing in someone like Bog or Sat creates an issue with THJ and that player starting. Which one would start and which comes off the bench? That is why I proposed THJ and Wright in the outgoing of that trade. THJ for the reason mentioned above and Wright for reasons already discussed.

My new idea centers around Chi wanting to get off of Young's contract as well. If we swap out the LM/WCJ part of the trade and add Young in instead that trade would be:

Lee, THJ and Wright for OPJ, Young and Satoransky - straight up, no picks either way.

That gives Chi immediate $8M in cap relief and roughly $40M over the course of the next 2 years (assuming OPJ opts into his contract for next year which is a pretty easy assumption). I think that would be fair value to make them give up Sat. We then have $24M tied up into tradeable pieces in Young and Satoransky where if we did get Giannis to accept a deal with us, they could be included in a SnT deal (or others depending on the negotiations of what Mil would want).

Our rotation shapes up to look like this:

Luka/JB
Sat/Curry
OPJ/DFS
Maxi/Young (you could switch these 2 so the bench roles stay closer to the starter roles)
KP/WCS

Summertime comes and you decide after WCS has opted out because we have raised his value by him being on the team whether or not you want to keep him, or let him go for a lesser talent/contract so you can wait for Powell to return.