(12-28-2023, 05:18 AM)omahen Wrote: No problem for me to accept you have a different view. Just a couple of more cost cutting moves this past summer:
- Bullock to SA for pick swap and 2 seconds coming back
- Collins to Utah, Atlanta received a second round pick
- Oladipo for 2 SRP
- Harris to Pistons for 2 SRP
Prime example from two seasons ago would be NY clearing cap space to sign Brunson
I'm not sure what your point is. Teams sell players, other teams buy them, part of the transaction may be a shift in cap room from one team to another, and player value may go the other way. 2nds are little pieces that get attached going this way or that. I'm not sure any of this would be an example of a salary dump that's cheaper than a single 2nd (which was the whole point, to be doing something when the prices are super low).
And just finding a deal with a 2nd going one way or the other doesn't seem really meaningful or necessarily parallel to me (much less 2, in some of those examples). Some of these teams were paying to get the player, and I don't anticipate anyone giving the Mavs some 2nds for Holmes, but if you have that lined up, I'm in.
What was that McGee deal that you keep alluding to, that you say the Mavs turned down, where it was a salary dump of his contract for a 2nd or less? Dumping McGee (or being able to do so) would be a great comp, but I don't recall any such offer being declined by Mavs at a price of a 2nd or less.