07-08-2022, 01:05 PM
(07-08-2022, 12:45 PM)DallasMaverick Wrote: Probably appropriate, based on the won-loss record of the teams in those years.
Would have been an incredible bummer to have a really high payroll, and really bad record as well. Lakers, anyone?
Here's a good article, although a couple of years old:
https://harvardsportsanalysis.org/2020/1...-spenders/
Also highlights the difference between the current Mavs and the pre luxury tax reform / championship Mavs. Front office didn´t get any smarter but in the past Cuban paid extra to make up for mistakes. Absorbing veterans in exchange for picks and expirings was the Mavs go to move. Post 2011 he stopped doing it.