Dallas Mavericks 2025 Trade thread -- Roster and Cap -- 1st page updated on July 1st

[Maverick41]

Not familiar with Handy, who has he helped develop? Reaves?

Reaves is one. Kobe, Kawhi, Kyrie, Lebron, etc. He seems really popular with players. He's a good pickup especially with Shamgod leaving.

[arkuo]

Mavs are hiring Geof Puls from the Bulls. Said to be one of the top tier strength and health coaches in the league.

Dumont's going all out in spending for coaches. That whole staff with this new guy must cost a whole lot compared to the old crew. Makes me feel like this guy could pay Luka the supermax if he wanted to. Feels all the more like collusion to send him to LA IMO.

[Mavrelous]

Mavs are highing Geof Puls from the Bulls. Said to be one of the top tier strength and health coaches in the league.

Dumont's going all out in spending for coaches. That whole staff with this new guy must cost a whole lot compared to the old crew. Makes me feel like this guy could pay Luka the supermax if he wanted to. Feels all the more like collusion to send him to LA IMO.

The Caleb Martin trade made it clear they are willing to spend, they needlessly went into tax last year...
Unlike Martin, this time the spending is in a really good cause, I'm sure Dudley is very popular and likable, and Sweeney is a shrap mind, but this staff seems more experienced and more profissional.

[41Dirk41]

Mavs are highing Geof Puls from the Bulls. Said to be one of the top tier strength and health coaches in the league.

Dumont's going all out in spending for coaches. That whole staff with this new guy must cost a whole lot compared to the old crew. Makes me feel like this guy could pay Luka the supermax if he wanted to. Feels all the more like collusion to send him to LA IMO.

It's clear from the beginning,but i can understand why people don't want to admit the reality.

NBA for me it's different after Luka trade, it's an entertainment league no more a professional one. Like the WWE.

No more $, just free stream and 0 merchandising. Of course Silver doesn't care about a poor Italian guy. I know.

[Darren]

Will Golden States opt to rebuild and trade Steph?

[daoneandonly]

Mavs are highing Geof Puls from the Bulls. Said to be one of the top tier strength and health coaches in the league.

Dumont's going all out in spending for coaches. That whole staff with this new guy must cost a whole lot compared to the old crew. Makes me feel like this guy could pay Luka the supermax if he wanted to. Feels all the more like collusion to send him to LA IMO.

The Caleb Martin trade made it clear they are willing to spend, they needlessly went into tax last year...
Unlike Martin, this time the spending is in a really good cause, I'm sure Dudley is very popular and likable, and Sweeney is a shrap mind, but this staff seems more experienced and more profissional.

The only silver lining about the Caleb trade is maybe just maybe Grimes would have helped us win another game which could have impacted our W/L to the point where we did not get the #1 pick. I still want AD gone, you hear stories liek J Dub getting 30 injections to fight through pain to play and know AD would never do such a thing, it gets frustrating. Not to mention Nico tried to trade 2 firsts for Kuzma, among all the other terrible trades, the guy needs to go

[Mr B]

Mavs are hiring Geof Puls from the Bulls. Said to be one of the top tier strength and health coaches in the league.

Dumont's going all out in spending for coaches. That whole staff with this new guy must cost a whole lot compared to the old crew. Makes me feel like this guy could pay Luka the supermax if he wanted to. Feels all the more like collusion to send him to LA IMO.

It was never about being able to afford to pay Luka. Miriam Adelson is a multi-Billionaire. She’s one of the top 5 richest owners in the league. She owns casinos (plural).

The problem is there a thing called the salary cap. The has made it where “Super Teams” can’t exist anymore. If they had paid Luka the Mavs would be exactly where the Lakers are right now. Spinning their wheels going nowhere. Instead of paying 2 or 3 guys super max money why not spread that money around and build and actual team that can compete.

[Mr B]

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[41Dirk41]

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That's good.

[41Dirk41]

Mavs are hiring Geof Puls from the Bulls. Said to be one of the top tier strength and health coaches in the league.

Dumont's going all out in spending for coaches. That whole staff with this new guy must cost a whole lot compared to the old crew. Makes me feel like this guy could pay Luka the supermax if he wanted to. Feels all the more like collusion to send him to LA IMO.

It was never about being able to afford to pay Luka. Miriam Adelson is a multi-Billionaire. She’s one of the top 5 richest owners in the league. She owns casinos (plural).

The problem is there a thing called the salary cap. The has made it where “Super Teams” can’t exist anymore. If they had paid Luka the Mavs would be exactly where the Lakers are right now. Spinning their wheels going nowhere. Instead of paying 2 or 3 guys super max money why not spread that money around and build and actual team that can compete.

B. You forget that street clothes makes 60M , we already pay a supermax for a old, soft and injury prone Robin.

Lakers problems are Lebron James and the resign of Reaves, pay 140M for 3 players that the can't stay together on the floor is awful. But i'm happy for that.

[ACMFFL]

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“I anticipate PJ [Washington] will sign an extension next month and I think it’s probably going to be at a number that he will be very tradeable on…”

That's the full quote I found on the internet, and tradeable is the key word imo: in order to still be tradeable, PJ year 1 salary can't exceed 20% of his current salary + 2 additional years and 5% rise. Otherwise he can't be traded until next offseason.
Honestly I can't see him taking 3/55M (that's the max number to still make him trade eligible after the extension), maybe if we add a 15% trade kicker but still feels like PJ could get a way better deal on the open market.

[arkuo]

Since like 90% of the coaches came from the Lakers' 2020 championship run, I'd expect the new system to be very similar to what the Lakers ran then. Kidd and Vogel would pretty much run the same plays they did for AD. I'd expect Handy to spend time with Flagg.

[Mr B]

Mavs are hiring Geof Puls from the Bulls. Said to be one of the top tier strength and health coaches in the league.

Dumont's going all out in spending for coaches. That whole staff with this new guy must cost a whole lot compared to the old crew. Makes me feel like this guy could pay Luka the supermax if he wanted to. Feels all the more like collusion to send him to LA IMO.

It was never about being able to afford to pay Luka. Miriam Adelson is a multi-Billionaire. She’s one of the top 5 richest owners in the league. She owns casinos (plural).

The problem is there a thing called the salary cap. The has made it where “Super Teams” can’t exist anymore. If they had paid Luka the Mavs would be exactly where the Lakers are right now. Spinning their wheels going nowhere. Instead of paying 2 or 3 guys super max money why not spread that money around and build and actual team that can compete.

B. You forget that street clothes makes 60M , we already pay a supermax for a old, soft and injury prone Robin.

Lakers problems are Lebron James and the resign of Reaves, pay 140M for 3 players that the can't stay together on the floor is awful. But i'm happy for that.

Yea but AD’s $60M is coming to an end soon, Luka’s salary is going to continue to grow.

[arkuo]

It was never about being able to afford to pay Luka. Miriam Adelson is a multi-Billionaire. She’s one of the top 5 richest owners in the league. She owns casinos (plural).

The problem is there a thing called the salary cap. The has made it where “Super Teams” can’t exist anymore. If they had paid Luka the Mavs would be exactly where the Lakers are right now. Spinning their wheels going nowhere. Instead of paying 2 or 3 guys super max money why not spread that money around and build and actual team that can compete.

B. You forget that street clothes makes 60M , we already pay a supermax for a old, soft and injury prone Robin.

Lakers problems are Lebron James and the resign of Reaves, pay 140M for 3 players that the can't stay together on the floor is awful. But i'm happy for that.

Yea but AD’s $60M is coming to an end soon, Luka’s salary is going to continue to grow.

What Stephen A mentioned about Luka makes sense. If you can't be controlled when you're earning this much, then how can you be controlled when you get handed a 5 year supermax. That angle made sending him to LA in exchange to AD plus rigging the number 1 pick made sense. The NBA won, Jeanie Buss' wallet won, and Mavs get AD and Flagg without having to deal with the Slovenian posse. It's the Luka fans who lost unfortunately. Not saying it's the right way to go about it, I'm just saying if it's rigged like the WWE, then being pissed about it for months and months won't do anything to "un-rig" it. People need to be pissed with things they have control over. Because that way you can do something about it. But things like this, we're all on the sidelines watching Silver, Buss and Nico put on a show.

[41Dirk41]

It was never about being able to afford to pay Luka. Miriam Adelson is a multi-Billionaire. She’s one of the top 5 richest owners in the league. She owns casinos (plural).

The problem is there a thing called the salary cap. The has made it where “Super Teams” can’t exist anymore. If they had paid Luka the Mavs would be exactly where the Lakers are right now. Spinning their wheels going nowhere. Instead of paying 2 or 3 guys super max money why not spread that money around and build and actual team that can compete.

B. You forget that street clothes makes 60M , we already pay a supermax for a old, soft and injury prone Robin.

Lakers problems are Lebron James and the resign of Reaves, pay 140M for 3 players that the can't stay together on the floor is awful. But i'm happy for that.

Yea but AD’s $60M is coming to an end soon, Luka’s salary is going to continue to grow.

Yes but with Luka we were contender last year and next year, with street clothes it's nearly impossible.

So it's a no sense trade unless the #1 was included and that's what it is. Of course

[arkuo]

Windhorst and Shelbourne are reporting that LBJ and the Lakers might be headed for a nasty breakup.

LBJ might actually sign with his friends in Dallas.

[ACMFFL]

Windhorst and Shelbourne are reporting that LBJ and the Lakers might be headed for a nasty breakup.

LBJ might actually sign with his friends in Dallas.

Unfortunately it feels inevitable, it's just a matter of how much he will cost.
I hope the FO realizes that he would be so damn dumb to improve a conference rival by trading half of our team to LA.
LeBron is more of a problem than a resource for the Lakers at this juncture.

[arkuo]

Windhorst and Shelbourne are reporting that LBJ and the Lakers might be headed for a nasty breakup.

LBJ might actually sign with his friends in Dallas.

Unfortunately it feels inevitable, it's just a matter of how much he will cost.
I hope the FO realizes that he would be so damn dumb to improve a conference rival by trading half of our team to LA.
LeBron is more of a problem than a resource for the Lakers at this juncture.

Trading for LBJ at this age would be dumb AF IMO. But that diva looks like he wants to get more rings than Kobe.

[41Dirk41]

Windhorst and Shelbourne are reporting that LBJ and the Lakers might be headed for a nasty breakup.

LBJ might actually sign with his friends in Dallas.

At the vet min it's good, good pick up.

[Archx]

Windhorst and Shelbourne are reporting that LBJ and the Lakers might be headed for a nasty breakup.

LBJ might actually sign with his friends in Dallas.

Unfortunately it feels inevitable, it's just a matter of how much he will cost.
I hope the FO realizes that he would be so damn dumb to improve a conference rival by trading half of our team to LA.
LeBron is more of a problem than a resource for the Lakers at this juncture.

It's a bit of a misunderstanding here. They're talking about next season 2026, not this year. LBJ will basically play out his final year in LA then either retire or sign somewhere else. He costs 52M this year, you don't trade that many assests for a 40yo player.

The problem is there a thing called the salary cap. The has made it where “Super Teams” can’t exist anymore. If they had paid Luka the Mavs would be exactly where the Lakers are right now. Spinning their wheels going nowhere. Instead of paying 2 or 3 guys super max money why not spread that money around and build and actual team that can compete.

This is actually not true. Grimes would be the only problem to resign. Mavs have bird rights to other players so they could have gone to 2nd apron and re-run the season with basically same team.