NEW PINNED TWEET
Room below Hard Cap $493,057
- Added Dinwiddie (1-year min)
Still have two exceptions but can't go above Hard Cap
- Up to $4,250,572 using the Full MLE (4 years max)
- Up to $4,668,000 using (2 years max)
As usual: Some nuance is simplified
This jersey is top tier.
Only worn 3 times in the playoffs.
- Round 1 Series clincher
- Round 2 Series clincher
- Tonight’s soul snatching after being down 18 on the road
Mavericks need to go ahead and commit to Christian Wood. If he’ll only take the extension if it’s a 4 year deal with a player option on the last year…then just do it.
This is getting ridiculous.
I get Nico wants flexibility to make deals but punt that.
I was 29 when the Mavericks won their last playoffs series. I’m 40 now. So they didn’t win a single playoff series during my 30s.
Nobody try and celebration shame us long-time Mavs fans. We are getting lit 🔥 🔥 🔥
Holmes had no real reason to do this. It’s one thing when a superstar takes less to come back to the team he’s spent his whole career with…it’s pretty selfless for Richaun to do this while coming to a new team. Respect 🫡
Our TPE is bigger because of this too
$4,953,980
Mavs C Richaun Holmes waived his $1.8 million trade kicker, sources told ESPN. That allowed the Mavs to beef up the offer sheet to Matisse Thybulle, but Portland opted to match. Mavs still have MLE to use and are $10.9M under the first apron/hard cap, per
@BobbyMarks42
.
Mavericks 1st Round Picks
2018: Traded for Luka Doncic
2019: Traded for Luka Doncic
2020: Josh Green
2021: Traded for Kristaps Porzingis
2022: Traded for Christian Wood
2023: Traded for Kristaps Porzingis
Spencer Dinwiddie explains why he picked the Lakers over the Mavs: “Let’s say you’re a kid and you get your ass whupped by the bully. Dallas would have been like your mama, like, ‘It’s OK, baby.’ … Lakers are like your dad: ‘Nah, you better go out there and fight ‘til you win.’”
Boxes out... jumps to tap the rebound back to THJ, runs back to the paint, times his jump to meet the rebound above the rim. Catches and slams it in one motion while being somewhat reckless. LOVE IT
1998 Draft: Mavericks acquire Dirk Nowitzki and Steve Nash
2018 Draft: Mavericks acquire Luka Doncic and Jalen Brunson
Just need the Summer of 2022 to NOT repeat the Summer of 2004
Feels like a good time to remember that Jalen Brunson and Kristaps Porziņģis, a 2024 All-Star and someone who arguably should’ve also been one, were called “no help” nationally when in Dallas.
Just interesting.
"The only game [the Mavs] really beat us was the last game. The rest of them were close and our mistakes let us lose... We can probably run off 3 more now."
Jaden McDaniels is confident that the Timberwolves can make history 👀
(via
@KSTPSports
)
- Dallas wasn't favored in 2 of 3 series.
- Boston has been the overwhelming favorite in each series.
- Dallas has played 3 of the top 5 records in the NBA
- Boston has played the West Conf equivalent of play-in teams
That's why you aren't hearing "Have the Mavs been tested?"
Dallas is up 3-0 and has only played two more playoff games than the Celtics.
I don’t hear anyone asking whether or not the Mavericks have been tested this postseason.
The three highest-scoring playoff games of Derrick Jones Jr.'s career:
1. Game 6 vs. OKC (22 points)
2. Game 5 vs. OKC (19 points)
3. Game 4 vs. OKC (17 points)
He'd never even reached double digits in any playoff game before this year.
How Kristaps Porzingis and Luka Doncic didn’t succeed together with the Dallas Mavericks - we will never understand!‼️
Porzingis looks box office with the Boston Celtics! 🔥
Also don’t want to miss a few other things
- Luka with a quiet 32 on only 14 FGA
Mavs
- Won fast break points 33-2
- Won rebounds 54-40
- Won paint points 66-34
When we traded for Kyrie… I was worried we might feel the need to give him the full 5 year max north of 270
I was resigned to giving him a 3+1 max around 210
We got him starting 9 million lower than max for 3 years (2+1 with player option).
This is a good deal
Sources: Kyrie Irving has reached out to Lakers star LeBron James in attempts to see if James would come to Dallas. Irving is a free agent this offseason.
For the first time in his Mavericks tenure… the Mavericks could exit a timeout with a lineup where Luka is the oldest player on the floor for the Mavericks.
Lively (19)
Prosper (21)
Green (23)
Luka (24)
Hardy (21)
*Ages as of Dec 1st, 2023
The Rangers partied last night while the Astros had a champagne toast and quickly turned their attention to Sunday and one more win. Houston's "been-there, done-that" mentality paid off, it seems.
LAL pitch to players on the buyout market:
- We are built for the playoffs, be a part of that
- We can offer ~ $1.5m prorated because of the money we held onto when not giving Vincent full MLE. Other teams can only offer ~$1m prorated
- Have you ever been to Southern California??
CBAMavs: “Did you know?”
LeBron will make $44,474,988 this season as a 38 year old.
Did you know… the league’s salary cap was less than that at $43,870,000 in 2004-05? LeBron’s 2nd season
Along with the game winning 3 with 21.6 left last night, and the highlight is here from our telecast, Kyrie made 2 more critical free throws late. Since joining the Mavs last February, he's 128/138 on FTs, 92.8%!
People coming from every corner to talk some stuff about Luka. I’ve already been through this when everyone talked their stuff about Dirk for years. I’ll stick with Luka. He’s going to get at least one (probably more) championships.
If the Mavericks get Grant Williams to sign an offer sheet at the Full MLE $12,405,000 it would cost Boston a lot in tax.
They are already 10 million into the tax with 12 players.
The tax on Grant Williams $12.405 would be around $37.75 million.
Total cost of $50+ million
You’re telling me the Mavs have a healthy Dereck Lively and a healthy Maxi Kleber for the finals?
Not going to sleep yet… still addicted to the content
Mavericks actually benefitted from Terence Ross spurning them so they had to settle for Justin Holiday.
They needed a poor man's DFS much more than they needed a poor man's THJ.
If you ever wonder what the difference is between a Luka fan and a Luka stan…. It’s this
Luka fans will be rooting for the Mavs even if Luka is out a while.
Luka stans will root for the Luka-less Mavs to lose because it makes Luka look more valuable for online arguments.
If the Mavs become the first team to come back from down 0-3 to win, it would be the karmic righting of how the 2007 Warriors were the first 8th seed to beat a 1st seed in a 7 game series when they took out the 67-win Mavericks.
Thanks,
@T_HardJR
. Appreciate the hard work and being a good teammate. Wish we could have had a championship to celebrate with ya. Have a good time being back in Michigan.
in what might be one of the more absurd statistical individual playoff performances in a while, Luka Doncic just scored or assisted 31 of Dallas' 37 total field goals made in a 105-100 win.
here they are, in order from start-to-finish:
“Hey Dallas, we want you to accept DLo on a huge deal. I mean, we benched him and he was a negative player in the WCF, but we need him in a salary match for Kyrie. LeBron is really upset. Please do us a solid.”
Sincerely
- The downtrodden Lakers
REPORT: There is more “smoke” over Kyrie to LA rumors than Trae Young, via
@ChrisBHaynes
.
“I don’t think we’ll see D’Angelo Russell back with the Lakers, LeBron wants to fade more into the role as a secondary scorer and playmaker.”
()
This is 100% a fan holding the ball to give his team an advantage. Jokic is trying to play on while the owner thinks he has the right to keep the ball. Ishbia should get a one-game ban from sitting on the sidelines for this.
I was walking through the Cattlemen's Steakhouse in OKC, the bread boy was in a great mood until I mentioned the Oklahoma City Thunder. His face dropped… he looked absolutely dejected.
He muttered “The Dorture Chamber is a lie and Shai draws fouls on defenders that Dort would
Grant Williams deal hasn’t been announced yet.
- They could be trying to expand the trade for (?)
- They could be waiting to see if they use the Full MLE first
- There could be another reason they are are waiting
I’m still trying to figure out which 2nd rounders we got. 🤷🏻♂️
There have been 2 instances in NBA playoff history of a player having a triple-double while also making a game-winning 3-pointer in the last 5 seconds.
Both of them were by the
@dallasmavs
' Luka Dončić (2020 vs. Clippers & tonight).
As an aside
There is no package the Lakers can put together with D’Lo to get Kyrie.
Yet, there will be Laker fans (in the media and outside the media) who push that conversation.
I agree that it’s a different game, but, in addition to poss/game, increased 3 point shooting is the biggest factor.
Kobe and Luka both took 13 3s.
Kobe went 28/46 shots and 20 FTs
Luka went 25/33 shots and 16 FTs
Lakers took 88 shots and 33 FTs
Mavs took 85 shots and 32 FTs
When Kobe scored 82 in the Prison ball era of 2006 the average # of possessions per game was 91 and the league average efficiency was 106.
Current numbers this season are 99 possessions a game with an avg efficiency of 116.36
Such a different game.
With Kyrie’s 2023-24 salary most likely being $38,888,889, the Mavericks can use the Full MLE (12.4) plus most of the BAE (3.9 ish)
If they sign Powell for more than the minimum it would cut into their spending.
Also… trades could happen, so 🤷🏻♂️
I like how other fans fans are now trying to dunk on the Mavericks/Luka.
Dude, we were 16-18 with Luka being killed nationally in late December.
- Finished with the 5th best regular season record.
- Made WCF while beating the 1st seed Suns
- Luka made 1st Team All-NBA
Dennis Schroder didn't like Maxi Kleber's attitude last summer & made his feelings abundantly clear while talking on a podcast.
"You can't play in the national team for that?" 😠
Notes on a potential Klay sign-and-trade
- Contract has to be at least 3 years
- No options in first 3 years
- 1st year has to be fully guaranteed
- Years 2&3 can be non-guaranteed
- SnT for him hard caps Mavs at 1st apron
- Could still use Full MLE if salary stays below apron
No body will care but I created an excel formula to automatically calculate Luxury Tax when given how much the team is over the tax line.
Took me way too long. I even used ChatGPT to help write the formula but had to fine-tune it. Personal triumph. 🙌
The Mavericks CAN sign Dinwiddie because
(A) Mavs are below the 1st apron
(B) The Nets didn’t waive him, if they had, then we wouldn’t be able to. If waived by Toronto he is only blocked from signing with Brooklyn
I’m not saying they should, just that they legally can
You'll notice that the THJ for Grimes trade has not been officially reported. Check
@MavsPR
for confirmation of that.
This means the Mavericks could expand that trade to loop in another trade they are attempting to make. This helps give the Mavericks more flexibility.
Dirk’s actual approval rating among Mavericks fans is 100%.
Two reasons:
1) Dirk Nowitzki is perfect
2) If you don’t like Dirk you are no longer a Mavericks fan