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[Ghost of Podkolzin]

Anyone else hear Tim Macmahon on the hoop collective say Dallas could have had Ayton for THJ and Holmes over the summer?  Is that what he said or is it being reported wrong?

I have Ayton at a $20m/yr player.  This makes for $41.9m of dead money in his 3yr $101.9m contract.

Let's say THJ's value at $10m/yr, leaving $13.9m dead of his 2yr $33.9m contract.  Let's say Holmes' entire $24.8m contract is dead.

Simple math would put Ayton's dead money at $3.2m in total, (savings in the first 2 years, dead money in the 3rd).

I'm not an Ayton fan, but to forgo 3 years of Ayton for $3.2m of dead money is really, really stupid.