# Dallas Dissed **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [July 9, 2015, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dallas-dissed/724645 "2015-07-09T05:15:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dallas-dissed/724645/21 "2015-07-15T02:41:57Z")
> [@borschevsky](#): > > I believe it’s there to allow time to finalize all the league finances. The league year ends at the end of June; that’s when the player contracts are up, and also the end of the year for all the other financials. The salary cap for the upcoming year is set based on the previous year’s finances, but that includes transactions happening right up until June 30th. The moratorium is in place so that contracts don’t get officially signed until there’s been time to calculate the final numbers from the previous year. Ah. Well, that seems a bit silly, and there is a very easy fix. Just make the players sign, with the promise that after all the numbers are crunched, their salary will get bumped to the maximum salary permitted within the cap rules for the upcoming season. Calculate the previous year’s numbers, and them figure out who gets paid what on new deals. No one would be getting less. I’m not going to argue that Jordan didn’t exactly act mature. But he’s a fairly young guy, and maybe he has a hard time saying no to people, and didn’t want Cuban to talk him back into going to Dallas. That would have made him look even worse. Jordan will survive. So will Cuban. The Mavs are just going to have to re-tool, but this is no worse (and even better) then a scenario that had Jordan sign with Dallas and then gets hurt. He is on the roster and takes up cap space, and the Mavs have to plan around that… Not saying he WOULD get hurt, but GM’s HAVE to have plan B’s in place for all kinds of contingencies. Now the Mavs have more time to figure out what they can do with the money they have. ---
**Author:** ![Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barkis_is_Willin)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dallas-dissed/724645/22 "2015-07-15T13:10:17Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > ETA: Jordan was asking parsons about where to live in Dallas after deciding to go back to the Cloppers. If that isn’t a lie, it accomplished the same thing. He also told Mark Cuban he was on a date while he was holed up with the Clippers and discussed with Cuban other potential free agents for Dallas to acquire while telling the Clippers that he wanted to return. He straight up lied to Cuban and Parsons. While changing his mind was a business risk, I can understand why they’re pissed about being lied to. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dallas-dissed/724645/23 "2015-07-15T21:26:24Z")
[I thought this was funny.](http://grantland.com/features/grantland-fauxsclusive-mark-cubans-inbox/) ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dallas-dissed/724645/24 "2015-07-15T23:00:41Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > [I thought this was funny.](http://grantland.com/features/grantland-fauxsclusive-mark-cubans-inbox/) That is gold! Daniel Snyder “man, thst guy is a real indian giver.” Thst whole thing was great! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dallas-dissed/724645.md?page=1)