02-01-2024, 03:30 PM
(01-29-2024, 09:17 PM)F Gump Wrote: Not correct. The NBA's most recent cap projection for 2024-25 is $142M, and the Mavs are committed to ~$172.045M, which means they are projected to be about $30M over the cap as is.
If you clear 3 players making a total of ~$42M, you also incur a cap charge for 2 empty salary slots at ~$1.17M each, which means you clear a bit less than $40M net, and your cap room in the summer would be only about $9.7M.
If that happened, instead of cap room they would opt to use the NT MLE of $12.95M and perhaps also the BAE of $$4.7M.
In those calculations I assumed they keep Curry. If he is waived, they save a bit more, but are still only $12.54M under the cap, still not as much spendable cap room as the NT MLE.
I want to circle back to this because there’s reports that the Mavs are interested in Bridges. I believe they’d find a way to resign him if that were the case. If you trade THJ, Holmes and Gwill (add a pick?) for Hayward and Bridges it brings the available cap space number next year to:
~$24.5M - accounting for the $1M less cap # and no Curry.
Roster:
Luka - Hardy
Irving - Lawson
Exum - Green
Maxi - Omax
Lively - Powell
-4 empty slots
I’ll assume Bridges signs 4/72M-77M. Making year one 18M. Bringing the total cap space down to 6.5M
A 2-3 FRP’s plus Kyrie (40M) package for Lauri (18M) & Sexton (18M) trade brings you to ~10.5M in cap space to fill 2 more spots.
Luka - Hardy - (FA)
Exum - Sexton - Lawson
Bridges - Green
Lauri - Omax - Maxi
Lively - (FA) - Powell
Can you get Hartenstein for a starting salary of ~$10.5M and sign a vet min 3rd PG?
Anyway, this kind of thinking is my preferred way forward for the Mavs. Roster overhaul!