02-17-2020, 02:56 PM
(02-17-2020, 01:28 PM)Jym Wrote:Thanks for the explanation. That's kinda deflating news, but hopefully Donnie can pull another rabbit out of his hat. I'm with you about THJ. I prefer he stay a Mav long term at this point. I think he's found his home and has blossomed. He's a unique talent considering how much he can score when he gets hot. He's been excellent as a starter this year.(02-17-2020, 01:10 PM)BigDirk41 Wrote: So honest question about not using the trade exception or Lee's expiring contract, it's my understanding we are operating as a over the cap team. Does that mean we basically lost all that money we could have used in trades? Will we be under the cap this summer or is it like it seems? This isn't a bitch fest. I think I understand it correctly, but want to be sure.
Yeah we lost a good bit of flexibility by letting those expire.
At the moment we're looking at around 8 mil in capspace this summer which is less than the MLE. You cant use both so unless we pull off some weird trade we'll stay over the cap and keep the MLE.
Seems rather limiting. At this point I'm not huge on trading Hardaway unless it's a clear Beal upgrade so I'd rather keep him than do most possible trades.
That leaves you with Wright, Boban and Jackson as easily expendable guys to use in trades.
So really the MLE is the course for us to add significant talent and salary this summer
We can't even use the 3.5 mil BAE since we used it last year to sign Boban
It sounds like packaging our 2 picks this summer along with some of those players you mentioned is probably our best bet at adding a truly impactful player at this point and then hope to get a strong player with the MLE.