02-12-2020, 11:11 AM
(This post was last modified: 02-12-2020, 11:13 AM by HanspardsShowerVoice.)
I really hope he doesn't opt out, because I think he means more an expiring contract in a trade than he does in whatever you can replace his salary with in free agency with this crop in the offseason. Seems like a lot of fans get hyper focused on having the most efficient cap dollar to production ratio, but you need those bigger salaries for matching contract numbers if you're ever going to pull off trades for high end talent. The reason that teams like Boston couldn't pull off trades at the deadline is they didn't have that expendible 12-20 million dollar contract to make a trade for a real needle mover to work without throwing in Smart (who they didn't want to trade). NBA titles are won by teams with the most talent, particularly high end talent, not the teams with the cleanest accounting ledgers. I always want to have that expendable $12-20 guy on the roster for a potential trade, because trades are the path for Dallas obtaining high end talent.