O.J. Mayo signs with Dallas Mavericks, reported terms would rule out sign-and-trade
O.J. Mayo, the one-time boy wonder whose development has stagnated over the past two seasons but could potentially be resuscitated in the right situation, tweeted on Monday night that he has signed with the Dallas Mavericks.
The Mavs only had about $4 million in cap space and Mayo was reportedly looking for $8 million per, prompting speculation about whether the Mayo deal was part of a larger sign-and-trade involving Jason Terry and the Boston Celtics. My fingers are crossed, I just put on my lucky underwear and I’m not religious at all yet I think I might go to church today. But if an ESPN report of Mayo’s deal being two years with a player option in the second is correct, a sign-and-trade is impossible. S & T’s can only be executed with contracts of three or four years.
And if the Mavs added Mayo for $4 million per year, props to Mark Cuban. Props to him anyway for spreading phoenix tears on Dallas’ roster, which was dead just a week ago. The Mavs looked like serious lottery contenders for a few days but have now added Darren Collison, Elton Brand, Chris Kaman and Mayo for almost nothing.
And Courtney Lee is left as the lone free agent object of my affection.
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- Boston Celtics enticing third team for sign-and-trade, maybe Toronto Raptors
- Jason Terry says he’ll give Dallas one last shot, still expects to sign with Boston Celtics
Celtics Blog | Jay King | July 17, 2012
We’ve missed out on a few serviceable PG’s already (Sessions, etc.) Lets hope we don’t miss out on Lee, since we’ve put all of our eggs in one basket. The fact that he scores 11 PPG is nice, but with Terry and Green that’s about 30 PPG more we’ll have already.
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I’ve always prefered Lee over Mayo. Lee seems to be high character and young. I feared Mayo would clash with Rondo. By the way we still don’t have a real backup for Rondo. Bradley moves better w/o the ball. Terry is not the backup. Who’s backing him up for rest? He plays heavy minutes.
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Rondo is young, and a combination of Terry, Bradley and Moore can spell him the minutes he needs. When Bradley is back, I think we have a respectable backcourt even if we don’t land Lee, if we add Pietrus to the mix, for example.. What worries me most is we are starting a 6th man as PF, his backup is a rookie, and the backup of the 36yrs old KG is coming back from heart surgery
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I’m talking about Wilcox, of course, assuming that KG plays center
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I, too, prefer Lee. Why not do a S&T with Houston? They love draft picks and we could toss in JJ. Go Cs…get Lee!
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because it’s unlikely that Houston would want to commit to JJJ for 3 years/18 mils, which is the result of the minimum length of a s&t contract and the salay that Lee expects to get on the free market.
that’s why Ainge is actively seeking a 3rd team to involve in the trade
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Have to agree, forgot it needs to match. Too excited hoping this gets done. Go Cs…get Lee!
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