What else do you want to see the Mavericks do this offseason?

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The Mavs have acquired three new players within the first few days of the NBA offseason to bolster their chances at winning the NBA title next year. What else is left for them to do? K&C discuss the options in front of the Mavs and the limitations the new CBA puts on them.

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00:00What can the Mavs still do with where they're at right now?

00:20So the tax threshold is $170.8 million.

00:25And I'll try to limit the math because I realized, Mike, it's an important part of the conversation.

00:29I was reading Bobby Marks on ESPN.

00:31This is so important, but it is very tough to understand.

00:36The Mavericks right now are projected at about approximately $175 million in salary.

00:43And now you might be like, oh, that's over the tax threshold.

00:45That's true.

00:46But you don't get to the first apron yet.

00:49And the thing with the first and second apron that teams are terrified of is if you get

00:52to the second apron, if you're not hard capped, then the taxes become outrageous.

00:58You know when you would hear like, hey, the Warriors, by drafting and signing James Wiseman,

01:02they're paying him $35 million a year.

01:04That's because of all the additional taxes that you would have to pay on players over

01:09the first apron.

01:10Let's just say Kevin Durant said, screw it.

01:13I want to go play with LeBron.

01:14I can't believe nobody wants to go play with this guy.

01:17I want to go play.

01:18Yes.

01:19Because LeBron signed his contract, they literally cannot trade for him.

01:23It's impossible.

01:25So you start running into situations where if you go past the second apron, you can't

01:31do any.

01:32That's your team.

01:33I don't want to say you can't do anything, but it makes it close to impossible to do

01:37anything.

01:38So that second apron is like, you better love your team because making transactions is pretty

01:43much over for your organization.

01:45Now for the Mavericks, you can obviously, you can still sign your second round pick.

01:52We've had discussions about whether he'll be stashed away for a little bit or whatever.

01:55And also I believe they have the, I don't know if it's the biannual exception, but they

02:01have an exception of 4.4 million dollars.

02:06And they do have that available?

02:07They do have that available to still try and make a move.

02:10So there's a variety.

02:11But that would take them over an apron that they might not want to go to?

02:14That is true because then they would be $1.3 million over that apron.

02:18And you might be thinking, oh, $1.3 million, not the end of the world for an owner.

02:22That's a thing.

02:23That's where the taxes start to, I don't know if exponentially increase, but they increase

02:27at a very rapid rate.

02:28And the aprons, honestly, it's really less about the taxes themselves, especially once

02:33we start talking about like that superclass of NBA owner that's now there.

02:36It's more about the prohibitions that they put on team building.

02:40And I think that's what Nico Harris was talking about when in his exit interview, somebody

02:43was like, do you think that this new ownership will be willing to pay?

02:46He's like, money is not the, is not the issue.

02:48It's doing it the right way.

02:49And I think what he was alluding to is making sure that you still have avenues available

02:53to make moves.

02:54Because if you, like Mike said, if you get over certain aprons, it really undercuts your

02:58ability to do very much.

02:59You can also get penalized draft picks.

03:01I know that is something that they put in there as well.

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