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The Mavericks will have just $3.4 million in cap space to start the off-season, but they are expected to make a number of moves to help that number grow.

To start, Dallas will most likely amnesty Shawn Marion or Brendan Haywood under the new CBA conditions that allow each team to waive a player without a cap hit if the contract was signed prior to last season. That should clear either $8.6 or $8.3 million depending on who is amnestied.

The next move would be to buyout the last year of Lamar Odom’s contract for $2 million instead of keeping him and taking the $9 million dollar cap hit. Vince Carter would also be bought out on the final two years of his mid-level exception deal, which would save another $2 million.

That leaves Dallas with about $21 million in cap space. With these moves and the other players already coming off the payroll, that leaves the Mavericks with a roster of Nowitzki, Marion/Haywood, Rodrigue Beaubois (Roddy-B), Dominique Jones, Kelenna Azubuike, and Brandan Wright. Azubuike and Wright both have team options for the final year of their contracts and Wright's is almost certain to be picked up considering the year he is having.