12-06-2020, 08:31 PM
(12-06-2020, 07:14 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: I would prefer to simply re-sign ALL THREE of the big, expiring players.
So I am definitely down with J Rich assuming he has a good year. To me he would be a priority assuming he fits well which we can't guarantee but on paper seems like he will fit. THJ is a maybe but he is a guy that you are always going to be wanting to upgrade. A big thing with him will be contract. I feel like he is probably MLE-level or slightly above? Alternatively I could see him getting bigger money on a 1 year or 1+1 type deal. We see a lot of these like 15 mil 1+1 TO contracts which are essentially no risk for the team and provide an easily tradable contract.
James Johnson is a big question mark but I would imagine if he does well he would be getting a very team friendly deal and probably only for a year, like a room exception type contract. Mavs would be trying to use their cap space to keep J Rich, maybe THJ and then add one more starting-level player.
I don't mind that plan at all. I am just thinking a THJ + Powell would be clearly an instant upgrade and also move a depreciating asset in Powell off the books. Basically you are paying Harris net 25 mil, 27 mil for two years and then he's a large expiring that that last season.
Mavs won't have cap space for a while anyway so that isn't a huge issue, the difficulty could be staying under luxury tax with KP, Harris, Luka, J Rich while keeping your role players like Kleber, DFS (who honestly might be long gone by 2022). You would be locked into that group of guys for 22, 23. After that maybe everything expires except Luka.
So it's an option but it might be too rich for the Mavs' brass.