11-14-2023, 02:21 PM
Trades at the deadline this year may be weird. And there are consequences of being over aprons when your season ends, even in May-June, that are going to be a real hassle in team building. Some are permanent (such as you lose your TPEs). So some teams won't want to wait until July - when salary rolls off the books - to address it.
Also, there will be NO teams in position to take extra salary at no cost (ie, under the minimum). But there is a lot of trade flexibility for teams who are not near the tax line to take a BIG multiple of extra salary in trade. So there may be a LOT of activity, and perhaps some useful players on the move, followed by buyouts or maybe even decent players being rerouted to a 3rd team.
In May-June and after, trades start to get really tricky for higher salary teams. Some of the rules will lower the match to force teams to take back less salary, or will keep players from being combined to match another salary, will prohibit SNTs outgoing as well as incoming, will keep teams from having and using TPEs, etc. That's something coming as well.
Somewhere in all of that, obviously the Mavs would try to move Holmes, if he's not going to be used, but I'm not sure how that trade looks. I don't see them using FRP if the ONLY benefit is being shed of Holmes. I think of McGee and how their focused intentions on him led to nothing.
Also, there will be NO teams in position to take extra salary at no cost (ie, under the minimum). But there is a lot of trade flexibility for teams who are not near the tax line to take a BIG multiple of extra salary in trade. So there may be a LOT of activity, and perhaps some useful players on the move, followed by buyouts or maybe even decent players being rerouted to a 3rd team.
In May-June and after, trades start to get really tricky for higher salary teams. Some of the rules will lower the match to force teams to take back less salary, or will keep players from being combined to match another salary, will prohibit SNTs outgoing as well as incoming, will keep teams from having and using TPEs, etc. That's something coming as well.
Somewhere in all of that, obviously the Mavs would try to move Holmes, if he's not going to be used, but I'm not sure how that trade looks. I don't see them using FRP if the ONLY benefit is being shed of Holmes. I think of McGee and how their focused intentions on him led to nothing.
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