I welcome onto the long-awaited Western conference grades here on Dunked On and let's get right to it, Denny.

Starting with a team that I actually struggled with here, the Dallas Mavericks.

Yeah, the Mavericks were tough, partially because of the timing and expectations and everything like that.

So the prominent moves for them, they added Seth Curry, DeLondt Wright, Bobon Morionovich,

a couple of second round picks because they moved down in the second, eventually drafting Isaiah Robi.

Importantly, they also retained Christophe Sporzingus, Moxie Kleba, Dwight Powell through an opt-in extension,

which counts Dorian Finney Smith and J.J. Barreya.

Their only losses to this point were Tray Burke and Coastus on Tadakumpo.

And yeah, so just to say you have it, the trade that they did was they moved down from 37 to 45,

picking up second round picks from the jazz and the blazers in future years. We'll see how those

turn out. Then in the DeLondt Wright, that was structured as a sign in trade, so they gave up two

seconds there, including one of the ones they acquired in the move down in the draft to get right.

And by doing it that way and using the trade exception, they actually function as an over-the-cap

team as opposed to clearing space, which gives them more flexibility into the season.

Yeah, they retain, I think, about $11 million or so of that NBA record trade exception that they

got in the Harrison Barn steal. And they should be able to use almost all of that and still stay

under the tax if they want to take on some salary going forward here, or they could also roll that

over at the trade deadline by just basically doing an equal value trade, but taking one guy into

the trade exception and then sending out the other guy and just creating a new trade exception

for that size. So we were very high on Dallas's potential coming this season with Porzingus,

a researched free agent he was going to be back. Luke Adonchich, of course, rookie of the year,

and they had pretty much max cap space, but they had the problem that they had these three

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