This article aggregated Paul Kasabian of Bleacher Report summarizes what Bobby Marks of ESPN said in the video I attached. The Mavs are at serious risk of having to forfeit games this month:

Per the G League website, two-way players can only be active for up to 50 games with their NBA team.

Edwards has played 37 and sat for 10 (coaches' decision) for 47 total, while Williams has played 25, sitting 19 (coaches' decision) for 44 total. So Edwards can be active for three more games, while Williams can only be active for six more.he Mavs don't have any flexibility to sign more players. They are just under the first apron hard cap by $51,000. In essence, that means they can't bring anyone else in from the outside.

Per Marks, last offseason's Thompson sign-and-trade and the Marshall signing "triggered the first apron hard cap."

Henceforth, the Dallas Mavericks aren't allowed to exceed the first apron under any circumstances.

"I see people talking about, oh, it's a luxury tax issue. The owners don't want to spend. No, there is no there is no exception to to be made," said Marks.

Dallas can not just call up more players from the G-League team

So this all leads to a potential doomsday scenario for the Mavericks.

Of course, it can be avoided, as Washington and Jones (who can play the rest of Dallas' season) can return before the Nets game.

Marks did note that there is a way around it, where the Mavs could use a loophole by lying and listing injured players as active. This could cause backlash, but is certainly better than forfeiting a game.

This is a really unfortunate and catastrophic situation for the Dallas franchise, and stuff like this is rarely seen in NBA history. They started this season as finals contenders, but then Nico Harrison traded Luka and players started getting injured, and that is when it all went downhill

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  2. Beyond that even if they don’t have to for whatever reason how many minutes is the current lineup being forced to play, what’re Klay’s minutes the smaller and shittier the rotations get?

  4. Yeah the Nets ain’t getting a top 5 pick lmao (they have 2 upcoming games against the Mavs)

  8. Thunder, Spurs, Mavs, in no particular order. Two months ago, I viewed those franchises as having the best future in all of the league (5-10 year outlook). JFC what just happened Mavs lmao.

  9. this has been the swiftest and most effective FAFO that I’ve ever seen in my life, it’s truly insane

  10. In theory this could happen but in reality they would just make someone injured active to meet the requirements.

  12. Lets fucking go. I always knew i had what it takes to be a GM but its way more than that. Im like light-years ahead of Nico.

  14. Good, I don’t care. Let’s forfeit the remaining games. I hope that the owners will pay some hefty fine.

  15. Gosh, my hopes were so high 45 days ago…

    Fuck Nico

    Fuck the mods of r/Mavericks

    Fuck the Adelsons

    Oh, and fuck Nico

  17. >Marks did note that there is a way around it, where the Mavs could use a loophole by lying and listing injured players as active. This could cause backlash, but is certainly better than forfeiting a game.

    Glad it eventually gets to the part about why this is a non-story. This has happened before. It’s not new. It seems to generally be considered fine to just list an injured player as active. There is 0 chance that they will forfeit a game unless they have fewer than 5 players who are healthy enough to play. 

  20. MAVERICKS FROM LAST YEARS NBA FINALS TO BOTTOM OF THE RANKINGS. WHAT A TRAGEDY. LOSING YOUR FAT SUPERSTAR AINT NO JOKE.

  22. Literally they will need to fix this in the offseason. Something like “if granted a hardship exemption a team can sign players for the minimum without it impacting apron status”

  23. The irony of everyone getting injured after they traded Luka because they said he had injury risks is so on the nose I have to believe God exists and he hates Nico.

  26. Shams Charania says that the mavericks are holding open tryouts today and that theyll immediately sign the top 5 players….

    Holy fucking shit this is hilarious to watch

    Thanks for giving us Luka…i hope you get your comeuppance

  28. This is the basketball gods punishing the Mavericks for gifting the Lakers a new generational talent for the next decade.

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