The Mavericks shed salary by dealing Tim Hardaway Jr. to the Pistons for Quentin Grimes.
Hardaway, 32, is due $16.2 million next season in the final year of a four-year, $75 million contract. Grimes, 24, is due $4.3 million in the final season of his rookie contract.
The trade positions the Mavs to be able to use part of the $12.9 million nontaxpayer midlevel exception. Dallas had been limited to the $5.2 million taxpayer midlevel with Hardaway on its books.. as the team's offseason"priority 1A and 1B" last week. Jones, the team's best perimeter defender, played last season on a veteran's minimum deal.
Hardaway averaged 14.4 points per game this season, primarily serving as the Mavs' sixth man. However, his role was reduced down the stretch of the regular season and throughout the playoffs. He did not play due to a coach's decision in four of the Mavs' last eight games in the Western Conference finals and NBA Finals.Grimes has averaged 8.5 points in 168 career games, including 90 starts for the Knicks.
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