Mavs trade talk from Las Vegas

ESPN.com's Marc Stein put together another one of his "chatter" columns and it includes this Mavericks note: If the Jazz can't complete a three-team deal involving one of the few teams possessing cap space when they ultimately move Boozer, they'll either be trying to work with a team that has a good-sized trade exception (Miami, New Jersey and Denver all qualify) or looking for a conventional trade that includes a contract like those possessed by Sasha Pavlovic or Greg Buckner. Only $1.5 million of Pavlovic's $5 million contract next season is guaranteed. Only $1 million of Buckner's $4.1 million deal is owed, with the stipulation that he be waived Nov. 30. These options, though, are just concepts for now. The Suns are not in the Boozer market at all, and the Mavs' interest is tepid at best, for a few reasons. Besides the fact that the Mavs can't aggregate Buckner's freshly acquired contract with other players until mid-September, they have reservations about how Boozer's low-post game would fit into an offense filled with scorers who need touches. A combination of Boozer and Dirk Nowitzki would also lack a real rim presence defensively, which often hurt Utah when it rolled out its tag team of Mehmet Okur and Boozer.