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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