JULY 8: NBA teams were notified on Friday night that the Blazers officially matched the Mavs’ offer sheet for Thybulle, reports Marc Stein (via Twitter).
JULY 6: The Trail Blazers have elected to match the three-year, $33MM offer sheet that Matisse Thybulle received from the Mavericks, tweets ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
The offer sheet was signed and submitted to Portland Thursday morning, according to Wojnarowski (Twitter link). The new Collective Bargaining Agreement gives teams just one day to decide whether to match offer sheets if they’re received before noon.
Thybulle’s new deal contains an $11.5MM player option for the third season, per Wojnarowski. It also features a 15% trade kicker, tweets Chris Haynes of Bleacher Report.
The Blazers will keep the 26-year-old swingman, who was acquired in a February trade with the Sixers. Thybulle was a restricted free agent after not working out a contract extension with Philadelphia last summer.
Thybulle is a defensive standout, with two appearances on the All-Defensive team in his first four seasons. He struggled to score with the Sixers, although his numbers improved after coming to Portland, where he became a full-time starter and averaged 7.4 PPG in 22 games while shooting 43.8% from the field and 38.8% from three-point range.
As ESPN’s Bobby Marks details (via Twitter), Thybulle will have the right to veto any trade for the next year and cannot be dealt to the Mavs during that time. He will become trade-eligible on January 15.
According to Marks, the Blazers are $3.4MM below the luxury tax line with 13 players under standard contract, while the Mavs are $9MM below the tax and still have access to the non-taxpayer mid-level exception, which starts at $12.4MM in 2023/24.
The move is a setback for Dallas, which is hoping to remake its supporting cast around Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving. The Mavericks are acquiring Grant Williams from the Celtics in a sign-and-trade deal and may search for another defensive-minded wing on the free agent market now that Thybulle is unavailable.
L for Kris Murrays playing time
Murray more of a big forward, Matisse more of a wing. Murray seem more like a backup for JGrant while Matisse starts alongside JGrant
Thybulle better not be starting.
He is nothing but bench material. Highly paid bench material
Murray is 2 years away from being physically ready to guard opposing PF’s.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen Thybulle hit a shot. He averages the same amount of points as me in the NBA, 0. Thats worth 11 million a year? Give me a break. The whole league is overpaid
While his shooting leaves much to be desired, you do understand players also have to guard other players and prevent them from scoring?
“The whole league is overpaid”… it’s 2023 and you’ve just noticed this?
thanx captain obvious
Which of these Pac12 trios would you rather have on your team for the next 5yrs, Markelle Fultz/Dejounte Murray/Matisse Thybulle, Kevin Porter Jr/Bronny James/Onyeka Okongwu, Dalen Terry/Aaron Gordon/DeAndre Ayton, Lonzo Ball/Jaime Jaquez/Kevon Looney or Payton Pritchard/Dillon Brooks/Bol Bol? Rank a top3 if possible…
1. Ayton, Dalen, Aaron Gordon
2 Ball,Jaquez, Looney (I think lonzo will eventually get healthy again)
3. KPJ, Bronny, Okongwu (Just bc 1st and 3rd guys)
4. Fultz, Murray, Thybulle
5. Pritchard, Brooks, Bol
Can Dallas still sign and trade for him?
Nope. Once Blazers officially match the QO, it takes that off the table.
They said they will match but theoretically mavs could be like wait, before you actually march let’s work a sign and trade. Yes I want thybulle, but I truly think it’s a bad move for Portland. Stacked west , all star wants out, why not get some 2nd round picks and devolope those younger players while golden state, phonix, lakers, age out
I believe once they submitted the offer sheet they can no longer S&T.
I believe they have to wait a full year before they can execute a trade once the offer is matched.
I like the Blazers keeping him. Give him a few more shots a game like Portland did, and he hit 39% of his threes while averaging 7.5 PPG. Is he ever going to be a volume scorer, no, but if he’s an even better defending Bruce Bowen over the next 6-7 years of his NBA career, $11M a year is more than reasonable.
I like the move for that price, they’re still going to have an okay team even after Lillard is traded with a lot of potential.
Dallas, split up the MLE and go get Terrence Ross and JaMychal Green.
Those are minimum guys
I don’t hate Green as a bench rotation piece.
I sort of wonder if we could steal ayo dosunmu from the bulls. They’ve done an awful lot of spending and his QO is only 1.3m. I would much rather have him deep on the roster than frank or mckinley.
I’m glad the Mavs did not get Thybule. They have plenty of wings they should play more and Thybule is a huge liability on offense making it easier for his defender to double team Luka or kyrie.
The Mavs are actually 2.5 million under luxury tax. They still haven’t signed their two draft picks from this year, I’m assuming to possibly trade them in a bigger deal.
He would have been a good add
You can only play two wings, sometimes 3 at most at the same time.
Dallas has THJ, Green, Hardy, Williams, Curry and Prosper.
If they got Tybulle, Prosper is getting zero minutes so not developing at all. Also, Hardy is not getting much minutes, and you are cutting into William’s and Green minutes.
Tybulle is too much liability on offense. Everyone is going to date him to shoot and hang back from him making it tougher on Luka and Kyrie.
If he was cheap at $3M you could get him and use him sparingly. The MLE can be used wiser. Or the space can be used for a major trade sending out THJ and McGee and get a bigger salary back.
Now they can actually send out Holmes and THJ and get Ayton back for example. Supposedly, the problem was they didn’t want McGee too. Not crazy about Ayton but talking about scenarios now available.
Draft picks salary doesn’t count until year 2 against the cap
Not really sure this can be considered much of a “setback” for the Mavs. I question if they’d have even made the offer on Thybulle if they knew for certain they were getting Grant.
I know they could have just not signed it this morning, but that’d be a crappy thing to do to Mattise, and players remember that kind of stuff.
He desperately wanted to go to mavs