2023 DRAFT: Mavs take Lively, OMP, sign Mike Miles to 2-way, sign Jordan Walker

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Should be pretty hard to find two contracts that are equally bad as McGee’s and Bertans’ and of comparable size. Right now neither one is offering more than minimum type production (maybe not even that) while getting paid $25+M combined.

So disagree there. Packaging #10 with these two guys should limit pretty harshly what you can expect in return. I’m not even sure the pick is enough to dump these two for expirings.

There are tons of players with worse contracts. Bertans has $22m remaining and McGee a little less than $12m. You probably only need Bertans to match salaries in most trade scenarios. His production is not important because he is just salary filler. The value portion of the deal is #10 for Player X. The other team likely saves money unless the Mavs are trading for an expiring.