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

[mvossman]

Apologies, I was responding from my phone and probably didn't make myself all that clear. I believe there are a number of ways to make this team better by the TDL. Health being number one but here are some trade ideas that I think are realistic.

Notice all of them have THJ outgoing and all of them keep the Mavs under the tax line.

Trade 1

THJ, Holmes, SRP
Dinwiddie, O'Neal

Both Dinwiddie and O'Neal are expiring so Mavs clear roughly 29M next year.

Trade 2

THJ, Hardy
Fournier, Grimes

Fournier is basically an expiring this year so you get off of Tim's deal in the process.

Trade 3

THJ, Curry, SRP
PJ Wash, Richards

Trade 4

THJ, SRP
Wendell Carter Jr

Trade 5

THJ, Gwill, Holmes, SRP
Hayward, Bridges

Mavs get off ~41M next year and have a chance to build a team around Luka.

Trade 6

THJ, Curry, '27 FRP
Gafford, Avdija


In conclusion, any of these trades make the Mavs better this year and next, IMO. All of them account for THJ's scoring outgoing.

So a lot of these trades involves clearing a lot of cap.  I'm not sure what that would accomplish?  There would be value to clearing enough cap to be able to use the full MLE.  That amount would depend a lot on other moves we make, but I'm guessing somewhere in the 5-10 mil.  after that, clearing cap space doesn't do much.  In the case where you cleared 41 mil, that might get us to the point where we would have MLE amount of cap space, plus the non tax payer MLE.  Thats shedding a ton of cap for a small exception.  I would argue the Timmy and Holmes contracts would be much more useful as expiring contracts next offseason.