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Originally Posted by sefant77
Again, you have to consider the crazy summer of 2016. The cap spike pretty much ruined the cap situation for ~80-90% of the teams until 2020...
2018 and 2019 just a handful of teams have max cap or near to max cap. And most of them are rebuilding teams like Hawks, Kings or Suns..
Also our plan powder wasnt really working because our assets were 34+ old Dirk and Rick. Now with DSJ, Doncic, Barnes and Rick and the winning culture created by Dirk it looks completly different for player looking to join a new team. As example for Butler next summer.
DSJ/Doncic/Barnes/Rick AND being one of the few teams with cap 2018 AND 2019 is a big deal...
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Bingo. It's not like big-name FAs avoided Dallas because they hated the culture/city/owner/coach/etc like many other franchises who can't lure FAs-- it was solely because the superstar they would have teamed up with was going to be 38 years old by the time their contract expired. That wasn't exactly appealing to a ring-hunter in the prime of their career... And before that we didn't have cap space to sign FAs, which is why the bulk of our championship squad was acquired through trades.
But this young core? I mean, LeBron was heaping praise on Dennis all last year, and Luka is already a star back in Europe at just 18 years old. Both of those guys have big personalities to match their talent, which seems to be key in the FA game... Throw in the fact that Carlisle/Cuban are known as a top-tier coach/owner in the league and I don't see any reason why we can't get some big names here over the next few years. This is a new era and we're primed to make some noise.