09-30-2023, 10:41 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-30-2023, 10:44 AM by Ghost of Podkolzin.)
(09-30-2023, 06:11 AM)Mavs2021 Wrote: I just don´t get what they are doing. It´s like they still don´t understand asset management at all.
if the Ayton deal goes through, here is the money allocated to the center rotation over the next two seasons:
Ayton 32.4 / 34.0
Lively 4.7 / 5.0
Powell 4.0 / 4.0
McGee 2.3 / 2.3
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Totals: 41.4 / 45.3
If you apply the luxury tax threshold as the hard cap, it´s 25% and 26% for the positional salary.
Given what we are already locked into at PF....
Williams 12.4 / 13.0
Kleber 11.0 / 11.0
Omax 2.7 / 2.8
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Totals 26.1 / 26.8
....you land bang on 40% of positional spending for the big positions.
That´s before you even get into the argument that Ayton is productive former #1 pick. They maintain re-trade value for at least one more trade. And there is a chance, with his seemingly good relationship with Luka, that he unlocks another gear and makes the Suns look dumb.
And if not you buy yourself time to develop Lively before you trade Ayton with a year left on his contract.
If you look at it from a in/out contract perspective, it's even more foolish not to do it...
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.
The only explanation is that the Mavs would rather not have Ayton than have him, regardless of price.