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Originally Posted by jthig32

Guys, Dirk has been renounced, otherwise we couldn't have signed Parsons. The Mavs have cap room until Dirk and Devin are signed (mostly Dirk) and can use their cap room to SnT anyone up to their current amount of cap space.

If they want to maintain that cap space, they can't bring anything on the cap back, so the team they're trading to would have to have a trade exception large enough to accept the player and send nothing back (or they could engineer a three way trade).

I suspect, in the case of Blair, the Mavs would get almost nothing of any significance back, and would mainly be doing it to do Blair a solid in getting him some extra money.

Why wouldn't the Wizards sign Blair outright?