The Dallas Mavericks are at risk of forfeiting games due to injuries and NBA salary cap rules, per Bobby Marks of ESPN.

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