2020-2021 ROSTER TALK: Archived

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We'd have only 19 million$ (and no WCS or MLE) if we intend to keep JRich.

Or less.

I get it. I wasn't saying there is max cap room looming in the Mavs 2021 summer (unless a player like Giannis is a free agent wanting to sign.) But there might be ways to get another max player, perhaps, to add to most of the existing talent.

My point instead (when mentioning "only one more player making max money") was a point pertaining to the practical limits of team payrolls.

The conversation here flows to ideas of adding a max-salary SG and a max-salary forward, and hey we have to pay J-Rich too, and how about spending MLEs and swapping JJ's expiring to add more, and on we go, when instead our reality is that the Mavs are already facing either-or choices.

They have KP on a max, and Luka will be soon. They won't want to gather more than 3 max guys altogether. (You just can't afford 4. It's hard to even afford 3.) So with that being the reality, "he's better than what we have now" might not be reason enough to opt for him if he's going to pull max money and he's not going to make you significantly better on both ends.