2019-2020 Mavs Trade Discussion + Salary Chart

[SleepingHero]

Realistic/optimistic estimations have 2020/21 cap space at 109 due to Covid

The thing is we don't know. I have no idea what the NBA is planning to do about the salary cap. The 109mm that you're guestimating is a number pulled from an assumption. My 125mm is based on outdated data. But I'm going to lean closer to the higher number than the lower number because the NBA has contracts increasing, and teams want to get better/maintain interest. For the NBA to allow the cap to fall 13% from the original projection would be a gut punch. The NBA is gonna prioritize the product and if that means inflating the cap so that teams can do more things then I'm sure they'll do that. Perhaps the NBA can bring back an emergency Amnesty clause. That's a quick way for teams to create a bunch of cap space without affecting current cap projections. 

I am not sure how you came to this result. Where you counting Hield in? Mavs have 84 mil in committed salary in 2021. Drop Powell and Wright and they would be down to some 65 mil. That is 60 mil of cap space with the very optimistic 125 estimation.

Luka- $10,174,391
Buddy-$22,977,273
KP-$31,650,600
JB-$1,802,057
Seth-8,207,518
Maxi-$8,750,000
DFS-$4,000,000
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Total Salary= 86,661,839
5 vacant roster chargers 1,028,852 x5=6,044,260
Total With Roster Charges= 92,706,099
Under my current assumption with the NBA cap at 125 million
Total Salary cap space=32,293,901

If 115mm cap= total space 22,293,901

If 109mm cap= 16,293,901

In the hypothetical (and frankly a bit unrealistic) in which the Mavs traded for Buddy, they found a way out of Powell, Wright's and THJ's contracts.