EXTENSION: Maxi Kleber to DAL for 3 yrs/$33M (thru 2025-26, age 34)

[ItsGoTime]

It's nice to be under the taxpayer threshold, but here are the payrolls of the contenders:

Clippers:   195 mil
Warriors:  194 mil
Bucks:      180 mil
Boston:     176 mil

Please don’t tell me the quality of the players on our team are on par with the players on those teams. I have no problem spending Cuban’s money when we have the right players in the most important places. We’re building the team backwards and the bench overflows to the starting unit. 


Being over the taxpayer threshold limits our use of the picks we’re about to have access to because we don’t have the ability to bring in more salary than is outgoing and we don’t have the other assets to make up the difference. This is the reason we constantly have to say, other teams can beat that offer.

I’m almost to the point that I wish they would just get off every contract except Luka and DFS’s and start from scratch.