The chaotic butterfly effect from Kevin Durant’s earth-shattering decision to join the Golden State Warriors is only beginning to be realized.
According to a report by Marc Stein of ESPN on Monday, the Warriors have agreed to trade center Andrew Bogut to the Dallas Mavericks. Bogut will apparently be absorbed completely into Dallas’ cap space.
Dallas and Golden State have agreed to an Andrew Bogut trade, sources say
— Marc Stein (@ESPNSteinLine) July 4, 2016
The trade to send Bogut into Dallas salary cap space, sources said, can't be officially completed until the league moratorium ends July 7
— Marc Stein (@ESPNSteinLine) July 4, 2016
Golden State needed to unload Bogut’s contract in order to clear out the necessary room to sign Durant. While there was some buzz that teams might not want to help the Warriors by doing so, all it takes is one to make a deal happen. For a Mavericks squad that has been known to breath life into aging veterans and could really utilize Bogut’s interior defense and ability to juice an offense by making plays from the elbows and rolling hard to the rim, it looks like they will indeed be that team.
