Do Maverick want to report Dante EXUM, but will exchange (or will renounce) to thrive or reject to do so?

With Kyrie Irving for the most part, if not for the whole, of the next season while recovering from a torn ACL, the Dallas Mavericks are looking for a depth to put behind the angel Russell’s out of season acquisition to the point. What they would like to do is report Dante EXUM, who spent the last two seasons with the team (even if he played in just 20 games last season after wrist surgery) and would return with a minimum veteran contract.

The problem: bring exum, even to a minimum, Dossi Dallas above the second apron of the luxury tax, a place that do not want to be. This has “focused on the search for a new home through trade” for the striker Olivier-Maxence Prosper, who is in his last year of his beginner contract, a move reported by Jake Fischer at the Stein line. Prosper, choice n. 24 In the draft of the NBA of 2023, it was sent to Dallas in a trade in Sacramento drafts, but has never found a constant point in the rotation of Jason Kidd.

Jaden Hardy is also available for a trade, said Fischer. The guard, in the process of entering the fourth season NBA, scored on average 8.7 points per game last season in Dallas.

Prosper’s trading (intended to earn $ 3 million this season) or Hardy (with three years and $ 18 million remaining on his contract) would mean attaching a choice of the second round to the agreement as a sweetener. Dallas does not want to give up those choices, which the Maverick has considering another option: by renouncing and lengthening a player to create space on the hood.

This must be done within an expiry of the championship on Friday at 17:00 Eastern. Doing it with Hardy creates a lot of pillow to bring exum, and if Dallas is seriously to retain those choices, this could be the option.

It’s something to look at, whatever is probably happening in the next 24 hours.