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

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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.

$24.5M ? No. I previously gave you the result from doing all that (incl Curry) and it yielded $12.54M cap room, less than the NT MLE. 

Now, with a $141M cap expected, the cap room number after all that would be even smaller (about $11.57M).

However, I think it's all a pointless exercise anyhow. I don't expect either Bridges or CHA to allow him to be traded now, because it will strip him of Bird rights, which impacts both his salary potential on the next deal PLUS the value CHA can extract in a trade. Instead, I would expect him to be a hot topic in July. We'll see then how badly he has damaged his appeal, or whether he will have suitors for a big contract.

I'm curious - where are you reading that the Mavs are interested in a trade for Bridges?