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

[KillerLeft]

NO needs to get off of about 3.5M in salary and has supposedly been shopping Valunciunas at 15.4M. It feels like Holmes would be the perfect swap, except at 12.0M it still leaves NO 100K or so over the tax line.

McGee for JV doesn't match, but McGee + snt of _____ at the minimum (Ntilikina? Morris?) looks like it works. But not sure that works nearly as well for either team on the court.

So how could the Mavs bridge the rest of that savings they would need to offer in a RH-JV swap? I've played with it and don't see a good solution.

The best I have so far is NO ending up around 161.7M (3.5 under the tax line) and Mavs landing at about 169.5M (about 3M under the Apron) after this swap:
JV-Lewis
Holmes-SNT player (min salary)

Suggestions?

Do you think Valunciunis checks the right boxes? Rebounding, for sure. Pick and roll, defense, rim-protection? I don’t like it, personally.