05-09-2023, 08:25 PM
(05-09-2023, 04:38 AM)omahen Wrote: Mavs have like 50 mil of bad salaries on their roster. Replacing that with 30 mil of bad salary is an actual improvement.
No one believes that bad-for-bad is really the equation here, and you probably don't either. And that reality is the obstacle.
PHX will expect to get assets, not your bad contracts and bad players. They hope someone will think, "He's better than our guy" and be willing to - as you say - pursue him for being available, while ignoring the financial ramifications and the fact he's not anywhere close to a $32M value.
The Mavs need to be looking for paths to good players on good contracts, rather than using their few assets to get more bad contracts. With a hard cap in essence, they really can't afford to pile on even more bloated salary if they ever want to get enough talent. And if they can't see an avenue in that direction, they might as well kiss Luka bye-bye.