JULY 7, 7:38am: Jordan’s new salary will be $22.9MM, but he won’t actually be taking a pay cut due to the lack of state income taxes in Texas, tweets Tim MacMahon of ESPN.com. MacMahon also relays comments from Mark Cuban on the signing, with the Mavs owner explaining that Jordan gives the team the best chance to “win now.”
JULY 6, 5:50pm: The signing is official, according to Eddie Sefko of the Dallas Morning News.
JUNE 30, 11:26pm: According to Jordan Schultz of Yahoo Sports, Jordan’s one-year deal is worth slightly less than the $24.1MM option he turned down in Los Angeles.
11:06pm: The Mavericks have agreed on a one-year deal with DeAndre Jordan, Marc Stein of The New York Times tweets. The verbal agreement is said to approach the $24.1MM mark, the amount Jordan surrendered on Friday when he turned down his player option with the Clippers.
The acquisition of Jordan is a long time coming for the Mavs – like, since Emojigate long – but the idea of the pairing picked up steam when the Texas-born big man shut the door on a return to Los Angeles by turning down his 2018/19 option.
The Mavs ensured that they would have plenty of cap space available with which to convince Jordan to join them when they turned down the 2018/19 team option on Dirk Nowitzki‘s contract.
It’s unclear exactly what the final figure for the one-year deal with Jordan will be, but Dallas had approximately $28MM to offer him. With the former Clipper apparently on track to join the Mavs, the club is probably out of the market for several other noteworthy big men that have been linked to Dallas in recent weeks — that list includes Julius Randle and DeMarcus Cousins, among others.
Jordan, fresh off of his fifth consecutive season averaging a double-double, will slot into Dallas’ suddenly impressive lineup and should give franchise pillar Nowitzki a significantly greater chance of playing competitive basketball in the twilight of his career.
Jordan was the 10th-ranked player on our list of the top 50 free agents of 2018.
Photo courtesy of USA Today Sports Images.
Really? How did they not work out a trade? DJ still screwing the Mavs.
It’s because the Mavs are dealing with Jerry West. He’s not taking back any bad money. He just cleared off 24 million dollars on his payroll.
And sign and trade with Dallas was never going to happen.
If they were going to lose Jordan, him opting out was best case scenario.
I think they’ll make a run at Jabari Parker.
Why would the Clippers want to take back the likely players like Barnes or Matthews, the only guys earning enough money to match up in a trade? I’m assuming that the Clippers will be rebuilding next season with Griffin, Paul and Jordan now gone.
I believe the Clippers would have obtained a $24M trade exception. A trade would have allowed the Mavs to get Jordan’s bird rights. So taking Matthews would have helped out both teams from an accounting standpoint. Mavs will have around $50M in cap space next year. If they would have captured Jordan’s bird rights, they could have signed two top tier players. Then once they were over the cap, used Jordan’s bird rights to sign him and go into luxury cap territory. Might not be the best option long term, but since they didn’t make the trade that isn’t an option.
It’s cuz the clips wanted future firsts packaged with Wes Matthews, Mavs wanted to drop the Matthews contract but didn’t want to give up first rounders. Because DJ got permission to facilitate a trade before he made up his mind on his option, I’m guessing he was able to throw Dallas a bone for the last time, and only agree to opt in if the trade benefited the team. I mean, if you’re still confused about it, he got one year for the same Money he declined.
Here we go again!
Gotta wait until the moratorium is over I learned my lesson from last time
Emoji-gate was legendary! Hope this works out this time. I like Dallas’s starting lineup of DSJ-Doncic-Barnes-Dirk-DJ
Not to rain on your parade, but I don’t think that starting lineup can work. Dirk at 40 simply doesn’t have the mobility to play power forward anymore. He won’t be able to cover quicker, younger power forwards like Aaron Gordon or Ben Simmons. And if a team goes small, and plays a Kevin Durant or Giannis Antetokounmpo at PF, it’s game over. With Jordan going to Dallas, Dirk might have to accept a bench role. Or, hypothetically speaking, they did decline his option. He could sign somewhere else
There’s plenty of room on one team for Dirk and DeAndre. They don’t really do any of the same things. They’ll be fine rotating Powell through depending on matchups.
Dirk will likely be coming off the bench. I anticipate Matthews starting most nights.
This actually helps the Lakers retain Randle.
Unless the Lakers go after 3 max players.
That’ll all depend on if LeBron (and any other star commits to LA). Unless they move Deng first, they’ll basically be forced to let him walk if the stars remain uncommitted to signing in LA.
They’ll have to renounce Randle to sign 3.
May not be three candidates left, though. I say the Lakers sign Lebron and Boogie. Trading for Kawhi is probably going to take a third team (Atlanta?) that will eat Deng’s contract.
Dumb ass clippers should’ve traded him at the deadline
I think Cleveland was the only team that was interested, and if I’m not mistaken, the Clippers asked for the Nets pick in return (or at least that was the most rumored piece to be involved). Cleveland obviously had no intention on moving that pick except for a superstar and DJ is far from being a superstar.
Rofl
Imagine if he decided to go to GS and left them hanging again lmfao
Dallas has a very interesting lineup, Jordan gives them exactly what they need in the front court. Athleticism, rebounding, and rim protection.
Major overpay in the current NBA. The move was Aaron Gordon and Julius Randle. Those two guys and a defensive center and you have a weirdly entertaining team. A 24 million dollar liability doesn’t make sense. He’s a good player, a 14 mil one year deal type of player.
You do know that Aaron Gordon was asking for the max and Julius Randle is likely to get in the $15m-ish range? The Mavs needed rebounding and got what is probably the best rebounder in the league.
Yes I am aware. Offer Gordon an interestingly structured deal right below the max. Make the magic max him out. There is more cap space if the mags had wanted it. Jordan is fine, but he’s not doing anything to help develop two young guards who need space and movement to play their best game.
And Aaron Gordon and Julius Randle were going to provide that space? Randle is a weird mix of half point-forward, half undersize bruiser while Gordon provides just slightly more range than Randle. DJ basically does the same without the 3pt shooting range, at a slight fraction of the price (as Gordon’s and Randle’s combined cap hits would likely be more than DJ’s single cap number). Again, getting a top rebounder was probably their number 1 need. DJ more than fills that.
Ok, those are valid points. Good discussion.
This deal looks good for one year fam i dont think gordon will be able to leave orlando tbh
Jordan and Matthews off the books next year and likely Dirk too. One more year of experience with the youngsters and attack FA hard next year. Mavs BB on its way back. 10+years of 50 wins seems so long ago.
BB?
Basketball
All the pieces are falling the wrong way to get James. No George, no Paul, no Jordan and most likely no Kawhi bc lakers will have to trade a kings ransom to trade with lakers and James will be left playing with G League players on the lakers.
And without those pieces, if LBJ does go to LA they would be hard pressed to get past Houston, Golden State, & Oklahoma. All the quick signings leaves the East and Cleveland to be the most realistic landing spot.
Philly
If Boogie is even an option, why are Dallas pouncing on a 33yo Jordan on a 1 year deal so early in FA? Seems far too hasty for the talent level.
Jordan isn’t 33? He is like 29/30.
Boogie was an option. However if the stars aligned perfectly, realistically he isn’t suiting up until January. If he suffers any set-back it’s February before he plays. Coupled with his known attitude, it isn’t the right risk for the Mavs with all their young players.
Very disappointed with Dallas, they just have lost their future with JR & DMC, just for a present win now DJ, but they cannot win now, & next year their 50MM cap space is no use, as all the big FA’s are SG or wings no bigs, so what stuck with DJ or no one, didn’t draft a big & now signing DJ, Dallas is gonna be loosing for many years to come, how sad that Cuban lost his touch.
Cousins is a FA again next year, so how did they lose their future? Randle is only signed for 2 years as well. If NO goes into rebuild mode by trading Brow, they can easily trade for Randle next year.
MLBTR: this article was published one hour ago yet there are 38 comments from 1w ago. Stop it. If there are no fresh comments…..so be it. Cross posting from one article to the other is worthless to us.
The article was published a week ago. We update it and bump it to the top of the site when new information comes in (ie. the signing becoming official, the new salary figure, etc.).
I have never seen cross-posting. Is that even a thing?