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Originally Posted by DisraeliGears
Hey there, first post. I've got a question that no one has seemed to say anything about.
Rather than trade Marion, is there anyway we could get him to exercise his ETO? If my understanding is correct (which it probably isn't) because we've had Marion for so long, couldn't we get him to use his ETO, free up cap space for this summer, then resign him to a longer, probably slightly smaller contract which could go over the cap?
When it comes to FA, one of the major problems is you can't sign another teams free agent over the cap, but you can your own, plus because we slid under the cap this year the penalties won't be too horrific compared to some (Lakers).
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1) Marion is not going to be interested in using his ETO and taking a pay cut.
2) Even if he became a free agent there'd be a large cap hold tied to his Bird Rights and Dallas would gain no practical advantage whatsoever (outside of the pay cut that he would never agree to in the first place).
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