Trade & FA 2023-24: Stein-Ingram Trade Inevitable| LAL Want Lebron Back On Any Terms

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In my love of forever complicating ideas:

 3 team trade: 
Bullock+Maxi+#10 to ATL. 
THJ+Wood+2027 FRP DAL to CLE. 
Allen+Hunter+Collins+15 to DAL.

Mavs add 4.5 mil to salary but generate 3 starters. 

ATL saves 20 mil in space and move up to 10. CLE gets their starting wing in THJ and a great replacement big in Wood (I assume he's SnT for 3/45). 

Luka/
Kyrie/Hardy
Hunter/Green
Collins/
Allen/McGee/Powell

On paper is a great starting 5. Mavs starting 5 is 151mm (which is expensive). And leaves them with just about 20 mil for the bench and whatever guys.
Assuming they keep Powell, Morris, and Pinson as vet min guys, they have 12 guys including #15 pick. Bench is light but I like this roster.

EDIT: I'd probably go to BRK and offer Bertans+McGee+15 for DFS and finish this roster out.

Luka/Green
Kyrie/Hardy
Hunter/DFS/Pinson
Collins/Morris
Allen/Powell.

Total salaries: ~178 mil.

I assume that's all one trade, incl BKN. Otherwise the trade math doesn't work for DAL. And BKN has to send a lot more salary to one of the other teams to make it legal (13 outgoing and 23 incoming doesn't match), and so does CLE (20 outgoing and 32 incoming doesn't match), which only leaves ATL to take it all, and there goes the bulk of that big salary savings.

I might hope for more favorable terms on the swaps with the various teams, but overall would I do it? Sure. But not sure Cuban would. (For reference, the tax bill at the 2nd apron is exactly $36.875M for a non-repeater.)

But there's not $20M more left to spend elsewhere. There's $0. Assuming Kyrie is at the same salary as Luka (rather than the max, which is 6M more), the 15-man roster you're envisioning (with min salary guys filling the rest) would total 179.9M on apron accounting, just a sliver under the 2nd apron. There's no MLE at all, so you're adding 4 more minimum salary guys and calling it a day.

Allen      Powell (min)/____ (min)
Collins   Morris (min)/ _____(min)
Hunter   DFS/ ____ (min)
Luka      Green/ Pinson (min)
Kyrie      Hardy /_____(min)