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

[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.

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

Value wise it's great of course. All-NBA talent for the minimum wage. It's all the distractions and the circus that he brings that I prefer not to be around Flagg at this stage.

[daoneandonly]

Did anyone else to watch wrestling like me? The crowds used to have this dueling chants where one side would say "Let's Go Cena" and the other half will follow with "CEna Suck"

I'm hoping the Mavs fans can come together at homes games and do something similar. "Fire Nico" followed by "Trade AD"

[Darren]

Herb Jones is re-signed with only 68M/3 YEARS.

[Teffer10]

Looks like Mavs are going to keep PJ so I think they should start him and bring AD off the bench until AD can prove he can stay healthy. Let the young guns carry the heavy load during regular season.
If this team relies too much on AD for offense, they might as well hang up the season now.

[Archx]

Looks like Mavs are going to keep PJ so I think they should start him and bring AD off the bench until AD can prove he can stay healthy. Let the young guns carry the heavy load during regular season.
If this team relies too much on AD for offense, they might as well hang up the season now.

How are you going to bring a max player from the bench? 60M of wasted cap space? I think either PJ or Klay will be relegated to 6th man role.

[Teffer10]

Looks like Mavs are going to keep PJ so I think they should start him and bring AD off the bench until AD can prove he can stay healthy. Let the young guns carry the heavy load during regular season.
If this team relies too much on AD for offense, they might as well hang up the season now.

How are you going to bring a max player from the bench? 60M of wasted cap space? I think either PJ or Klay will be relegated to 6th man role.

If his minutes are limited he at least has a chance to come off the bench and give us something. If he is heavily relied upon, he'll eventually never get off the bench and definitely be a waste of cap space. He basically already is imo.

This is KP all over again and the sooner Nico gets rid of this problem, the better.

[Archx]

Looks like Mavs are going to keep PJ so I think they should start him and bring AD off the bench until AD can prove he can stay healthy. Let the young guns carry the heavy load during regular season.
If this team relies too much on AD for offense, they might as well hang up the season now.

How are you going to bring a max player from the bench? 60M of wasted cap space? I think either PJ or Klay will be relegated to 6th man role.

If his minutes are limited he at least has a chance to come off the bench and give us something. If he is heavily relied upon, he'll eventually never get off the bench and definitely be a waste of cap space. He basically already is imo.

This is KP all over again and the sooner Nico gets rid of this problem, the better.

Yeah i do agree with you but we know Nico can't do that for his own good. No way can he justify the trade if he benches AD or even trades him. The only reason why he's floating above the water (for now) is because Mavs somehow landed nr1 pick.

[arkuo]

Rich Paul says 4 teams contacted him to inquire about Lebron. Mavs being one of them. Not sure if he's just putting out this BS to get LBJ better treatment from LA brass.

If push comes to shove, just sign PJ to $50M and do a straight swap with LBJ. Since PJ is still unsigned, you can sign him to whatever amount to match salaries

[Mavrelous]

Rich Paul says 4 teams contacted him to inquire about Lebron. Mavs being one of them. Not sure if he's just putting out this BS to get LBJ better treatment from LA brass.

If push comes to shove, just sign PJ to $50M and do a straight swap with LBJ. Since PJ is still unsigned, you can sign him to whatever amount to match salaries

PJ is signed for the coming year, he's not extended...

[ACMFFL]

The most I'd put on the table is the 2029 LAL 1st and give it to a third team or directly to LAL to buyout LeBron.

[Darren]

Luka is said to have no rush in signing an extension if the team doesn't improve enough. The situation becomes strange. Can I read it as Luka wants the team to trade LBJ and Reaves for significant contending pieces first?

[arkuo]

Luka is said to have no rush in signing an extension if the team doesn't improve enough. The situation becomes strange. Can I read it as Luka wants the team to trade LBJ and Reaves for significant contending pieces first?

Luka's 26. If he signs a 4 year max, he'd be 30 by the time that contract is up. We don't know how many injuries he will have racked up by then. But it looks like the trade kicked him in the right direction now. He's been posting pictures of himself losing weight, working out and eating well. So maybe that prolongs his playing career. But I don't see him holding up til his mid 30s. To your point, if he signs that contract, the next and only time he has a say on where to go is when he's 30 years old already. Either he ties his boat to the Lakers or controls his destiny next season is up to him.

The bottlomline there is how much he trusts Pelinka and if he has 100% faith in him being able to build a championship roster around him until he's 30 or so. Because according to some Slovenian posters nack when Luka had THJ, "Luka will not tolerate losing and will request a trade."

[arkuo]

Rich Paul says 4 teams contacted him to inquire about Lebron. Mavs being one of them. Not sure if he's just putting out this BS to get LBJ better treatment from LA brass.

If push comes to shove, just sign PJ to $50M and do a straight swap with LBJ. Since PJ is still unsigned, you can sign him to whatever amount to match salaries

PJ is signed for the coming year, he's not extended...

Right right. No use trading for Lebron this year then. A buyout this year or sign him straight him with the minimum next year should be the case. Or even a S&T with Klay next summer since his dad wants him in LA and his new girlfriend is has that Hollywood lifestyle.

[Archx]

Luka is said to have no rush in signing an extension if the team doesn't improve enough. The situation becomes strange. Can I read it as Luka wants the team to trade LBJ and Reaves for significant contending pieces first?

His personal assistant denied any reports of Ramona and Windy. Rich Paul himself denied reports of both of these two dumb reporters as well. Luka's PR staff in an interview said they have great relationship with LA organization and fully trust them. They'll probably sign a 3 year deal in August so that he can get a FULL max later on.

Reports of Mavs wanting Lebron were made by some 3rd grade reporter who has no connections. ESPN is just grasping for straws here. Even Lebron is fed up with them when he recently denied to be interviewed by them

Also.. Lakers are going all in next season probably with Lebron coming off the books and a lot of draft capital to work with. They'll be able to assemble a seriously dangerous team.

[Woike] Lakers’ desire to keep their salary-cap sheet as clear as possible starting next summer, allowing them to find Luka Dončić’s future partner either in free agency or via trade, when they’ll have access to use first-round picks in 2026, 2031 and 2033 for a single trade.

[arkuo]

Luka is said to have no rush in signing an extension if the team doesn't improve enough. The situation becomes strange. Can I read it as Luka wants the team to trade LBJ and Reaves for significant contending pieces first?

His personal assistant denied any reports of Ramona and Windy. Rich Paul himself denied reports of both of these two dumb reporters as well. Luka's PR staff in an interview said they have great relationship with LA organization and fully trust them. They'll probably sign a 3 year deal in August so that he can get a FULL max later on.

Reports of Mavs wanting Lebron were made by some 3rd grade reporter who has no connections. ESPN is just grasping for straws here. Even Lebron is fed up with them when he recently denied to be interviewed by them

Also.. Lakers are going all in next season probably with Lebron coming off the books and a lot of draft capital to work with. They'll be able to assemble a seriously dangerous team.

[Woike] Lakers’ desire to keep their salary-cap sheet as clear as possible starting next summer, allowing them to find Luka Dončić’s future partner either in free agency or via trade, when they’ll have access to use first-round picks in 2026, 2031 and 2033 for a single trade.

This is the ideal scenario for Luka and the Lakers to get back on their feet. Luka needs to spend time in LA in the summer and start recruiting other stars to play with him. It has to be done this way. Trusting Pelinka would do everything and magically have stars lining up is hard to believe when you have Kobe calling Dirk in the summer, Lebron working out in LA to get AD, and Kyrie convincing KD to play in Brooklyn. It's not tampering if Luka does it. However the case may be that it's Jokic that convinces him to move to Denver than it is the other way around. Jokic is more of an alpha between the two.

[daoneandonly]

Interesting how the trade is what finally motivated Luka. Wasnt getting curb stomped and slapped around in the Finals from Boston.

Again, not mad at all they traded him, just what they got back and how it was handled.

[Archx]

Again, not mad at all they traded him

The two only players in history to average over 30 points per game in the NBA playoffs.

[daoneandonly]

Again, not mad at all they traded him

The two only players in history to average over 30 points per game in the NBA playoffs.

He's an exceptional player, but immature when it came to constantly yapping at refs and his conditioning. I remember seeing a stat about how Shai Giannis and Jokic were amongs the bottom in technical and arguing calls and the commentators were saying how thats how International players conduct themselves compared to Americans. Yet Luka was nowhere to be found on that list.

Thats bad enough, but now all of a sudden he has a fire lit under him to work out and be in shape? Why didnt the FInals loss light that fire? Is it the jabs at him or the fact that he lost a good deal of money since LAL cant pay him what Dallas had to? If its that, shows his priority.

[arkuo]

Well Luka looks like he's taking his conditioning seriously now. Being shipped out of Dallas got him working out and posting weight loss photos of himself. A company told him they don't want him even if he scores over 30 per game in the playoffs. That is a very bold message. Now he's eating better.

It's the same with Nash when he left. There were some guys here that thought his back was done. Somebody mentioned stick a fork in it. He's done. Not being re-signed was a wake up call and that's the time Nash took it seriously.

[Archx]

Thats bad enough, but now all of a sudden he has a fire lit under him to work out and be in shape? Why didnt the FInals loss light that fire? Is it the jabs at him or the fact that he lost a good deal of money since LAL cant pay him what Dallas had to? If its that, shows his priority.

He made a mistake playing for NT after the finals when he was clearly still injured. He was almost limping vs Greece in that tournament. Then time ran out for him when he needed to get back in shape. He hired a medical team and made a plan with his trainer to get back to playoff shape through the season.
Unfortunately calf injury was a huge setback again but he started playing like himself before that, so we already saw glimpses of his former form. In the backgrounds, Nico was already plotting his thing and was secretly filming him when he worked out and told Dumont that Luka is taking vacations when Mavs medical staff wanted him to come back way too early. The rest is history basically...

Well Luka looks like he's taking his conditioning seriously now. Being shipped out of Dallas got him working out and posting weight loss photos of himself.

Those are mostly pics from fans taking selfies and media. He's been very low key all summer. Even his dad said he's done talking about him when media was constantly asking how he's doing. But yeah, you're right, last time we saw him look like this was when he was like 17yo... The revenge tour will probably be legendary. Another potential historic season incoming.